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Byzantine Steelyard Walters . Steelyards or scales were used in the Roman and Byzantine Empires for weighing heavy objects in the marketplace They are in fact still in use today The steelyard named for its more recent function of weighing steel in England consists of balance beam divided into two arms of unequal length with suspension