What do they look like?

Fragment of an 18-pounder shrapnel shell containing lead ‘bullets’
© Imperial War Museum

Lead-acid rechargeable accumulator (battery)
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Parish boundary plate, 18th century
© Museum of London

Pewter (alloy containing small amounts of lead) brooches from an Anglo-Saxon hoard, 11th century
© Museum of London

Fuming pot of green and yellow lead glaze, 16th-17th century
© Museum of London

Lead cloth seal, 1552
© Museum of London

Stained glass window with portrait of Sir James Young Simpson
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Lead pipe
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum