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Description: | A small cast gunmetal (copper-alloy) circular trade weight of post-medieval date. The weight has a circular rim, 3.65mm thick, a central punch and shallow concentric grooving between the two resulting from the process of manufacture. The reverse is flat but is covered with diagonal file marks. The upper face is stamped with an initial 'G' surmounted by a crown which obscures other symbols: presumably, the sword of St Paul (for the City of London), and an 'A' (for avoirdupois) which occur on trade weights. These symbols are clustered around 12 o'clock. At 6 o'clock is a ewer (for the Founder's Company, maker of weights). The 'G' probably denotes George I (rather than any of the successive King Georges) given the clustering of symbols opposite the ewer (Biggs 1992, 52). It has been difficult to approximate an avoirdupois weight to this trade weight: it is perhaps closest to a quarter of a pound, although this assumes quite a large discrepancy. | Subjects: | trade weight | 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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