File:Balance arm (FindID 93756-58799).jpg

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balance arm
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Adam Daubney, 2005-04-20 13:06:14
Title
balance arm
Description
English: Fragment of a cast copper alloy beam arm from a steelyard or balance. Both ends of the oval sectioned arm are missing. There are nine notches along the top of the arm each 10mm apart from each other, and along the same line there are five smaller notches, each 9mm apart. There is an incised 'X' on the side of the arm underneath one of the 10mm notches. There are three notches on the other side of the arm, however they are not regularly spaced, having a distance of 19mm and 23mm from each other.

This object was used in weighing and measuring. A pan would have been attached to the missing end of the beam, and a counterweight moved along the points of the graduated scale on the surviving end of the beam until equilibrium was achieved.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Lincolnshire
Date between 43 and 410
Accession number
FindID: 93756
Old ref: LIN-79A1E4
Filename: LIN2623B.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/58800
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/58800/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/93756
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Object location52° 52′ 57.36″ N, 0° 24′ 26.4″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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