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Description: | A cast copper-alloy pen, or parchment pricker, of probable medieval date, circa. 13th Century. Shaft has four longitudinal rows of linked lozengiform facets; hollows between. Roughly circular knop with flat, sub-circular terminal. Between the knop and the lozengiform decoration the shaft is plain and circular in section. There is a similar plain, narrow section at the opposite end,between the lozengiform decoration on the shaft and the lanceolate end.
The knop is 5mm in diameter and 8mm long. The shaft is 3mm in diameter, being plain for 10mm from the base of the knop to the lozengiform section, which is 51mm long and is followed by another plain section which is 19.5mm long from the lozengiform decoration to the lanceolate end. The lanceolate end is 29mm in length, 4.5mm at its widest section before tapering to a point. The complete length of the pen is 116.5mm.
There is a bevelled groove along each side of the lanceolate creating 4 reservoirs to hold the ink. There is a close parallel for such a pen illustrated in Egan (1998, 271; ref. 898), and also Margeson (1993, 70: ref. 441). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Cassidy, Julie | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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