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Description: | Incised geometrical design Isle of Gigha, Argyll and Bute, Scotland MANU Viking Scandinavia 2 pans, beam and indicator with two bird-shaped suspensions.
This remarkably well-preserved set of folding scales was probably found in a Viking burial. One arm of the balance is missing; the other is folded upright. The pans are of tinned bronze with geometrical decoration made by scraping away surface tinning. The pans would have been suspended from fine chains from the two little metal birds, which hung from the end of the beam.
NB beam underwent conservation in Edinburgh, July 1995. | 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: | MEASURING : WEIGHING : SCALES : EXIT3074 : SAC_LTALK_APR10 : | 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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