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Description: | CHESTERMAN SHEFFIELD ENGLANND (emossed on both sides of the leather body). 100FT (engraved on the brass winding handle). MANU James Chesterman. and Company circa 1900 Bow Works, Nursery Street, Sheffield, West Riding, Yorkshire, England. Used in archaeological and geological excavations by the staff of the Hunterian Museum. One side of the tape is marked in feet and inches the other in links i.e. 8 inches approximately 200mm. This alludes to the standard length of a link in a surveyors measuring chain. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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