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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy probable medieval cup weight. The object has a circular (although incomplete) rim, tapering sides and a flat circular base. On opposite points of the outside of the rim are two parallel lugs orientated vertically. These have rounded edges, although one has a small notch in it.
The rim of the cup has a maximum external diameter of 32.0mm and it is 40.1mm wide between the two sets of lugs. The cup is 16.9mm long from top to base. The object has a mass of 32.7g. Two portions of the rim and the upper area of the sides are missing. There is a well developed green patina visible on small portions of the cup, and where this is not present the surface has a lighter green/brown surface. None of the damage appears recent.
In ??The Medieval Household??, Egan (1998 p.310 and fig 230) identifies a cup weight excavated from a context dated to c.1200-c.1230 (object number 976). However, object number 976 is thicker walled than the object recorded here, and it has circle and dot motifs around the top and no lugs on the outside of the rim. In ??English Weights an illustrated survey?? Biggs (1992, p.15) illustrates a number of cup weights, which he attributes to the 12th to 14th centuries. These also appear to have thicker walls than the object recorded here, together with circular marks around the rim. A number of cup weights are recorded on the PAS database (e.g. see record SF-2DB752).
The form of the object recorded here shares much with medieval cup weights recorded elsewhere (as discussed above), and this is the most likely function and date of the object. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Slarke, Duncan - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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