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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy sheet scale pan of medieval date, 14th or 15th century. From the illustration (see notes, below) it appears that around two-thirds of the pan survives. It is dished to a depth of 9.5mm. Such artefacts usually have three circular perforations for suspension from the beam by strings (Egan 1998, 322); this broken example only features two. On the internal base of the pan is a finely incised flower motif of six compass drawn petals, each a narrow pointed oval in shape. This decoration is echoed in another scale pan found in Northamptonshire which can be seen on this database, ref. NARC2574. The latter example is unprovenanced so it is impossible to say whether these finds are related. The likelihood, however, is that they were not, the compass drawn six-petalled flower being a ubiquitous medieval motif otherwise found on ampullae, for example. | Subjects: | Scale Pan | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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