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Description: | Circular lead disc, 23mm in diameter and decorated with raised pellets and two lines. The lines take the form of a cross (slightly off-centre) with a pellet at the point where the two lines cross and at the end of each line (one missing). In each resulting quadrant are either one or two pellets, the two two-pellet quadrants on the side where the off-centre cross has left more room. The reverse is completely flat. Fifteen tokens of a similar style are published in the Salisbury Museum Medieval Catalogue Vol.III, figs 34 and 35, and thought to be local to Salisbury, although their findspot is unknown. While these have line and pellet decoration, their reverses are decorated with depictions of the male and female sexual organs. Perhaps this example from further north in the county is related, and maybe unfinished. The Salisbury examples date to the 12th and 13th century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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