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Description: | A possible cast lead trading weight. The weight is a shield-shape in plan. The reverse is flat and undecorated; the front has a high-relief shield-shape platform as decoration. Off-centre, along the upper edge there is a hole, which is 5.92mm diameter. The rim of the hole is slightly crumpled on the front of the weight. The surface of the weight has a beige coloured patina. The weight measures 37.39mm long, 28.1mm wide and 12.35mm thick. It weighs 62.9g.
Biggs and Withers (Biggs, N. and Withers, P. 2000 Lead Weights: The David Rogers Collection White House Publications and Galata Print Ltd.) illustrates similar shaped weights, and they are usually described as Medieval trade weights, however no documentary has been found to support this. Biggs (Biggs, N. 1992 English Weights: An Illustrated Survey White House Publications, pp. 42-44) also illustrates shield-shaped weights, but these are decorated with lions passant and guardant on a high-relief platform, and the suggested date for these are late 14th to 15th centuries. They may be part of a standardising of trade weights using the ??binary?? averdepois system, however the recorded example is does not match a formal weight, for example an ounce equals 28.4g. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bolton, Angie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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