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Description: | Small plaque, part of a post-medieval toy hornbook. It is made of lead alloy, which is crumbling at the broken edges; there is dark brown corrosion on the front and back. Some letters of the alphabet are still visible: MNOPQR (first row) and STVW (second row) as well as XYZ (last row). There is a space after the Z, as if the numbers 0-9 would follow, but there is no trace of them (or the beginning of the alphabet) left. The reverse is undecorated.Full-size hornbooks (made from wood with a paper panel set behind a horn or mica plate) were used as teaching aids, but it seems likely that small lead versions such as these were toys (Lewis 2012, 98-101). Most appear to date to the 17th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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