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Description: | A 16th/early 17th century lead object possibly used as an apothecaries weight decorated with a horse and rider. The weight is flat, square in shape, rectangular in section and has slightly bevelled edges, one side of the weight is unevenly cut. The obverse face of the weight depicts a horse and rider the reverse is blank. The length is 40mm, width 38mm and weight 108.92g. Small square lead weights such as this appear from the 14th or 15th centuries used either as coin weights or apothecaries weights. They survive into the Post-Medieval period of the 16th or 17th centuries AD. For coin weights see Withers and Withers, 1995: pp. 9. For apothecaries weights see Salisbury & South Wilts. Museum Medieval Catalogue 3, 2001, p102-4 & figs. 35-6 and Biggs, 1992: pp. 7-8). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Noon, Stuart | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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