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Description: | An incomplete and slightly misshapen cast lead rod, probably a pencil of Medieval or Post Medieval date (c. AD 1066 - c. AD 1650). Length: 36.3mm; diameter: 5.9mm. Weight: 9.79g.This pencil is circular in cross-section throughout its length. One end is in the form of an old transverse break and the opposite end terminates with conical point. Although misshapen, the object is in good condition and has a greyish buff patina overall.Dr Helen Geake of the Portable Antiquities Scheme has commented: "The use of lead pencils is still not really understood. At Winchester they are found mainly in 13th- or 14th-century contexts, and it was thought some years ago that when graphite was discovered in Cumbria in the late 16th century lead pencils went out of use; but metal-detector finds of well-made mass-produced pencils suggest that in fact they carried on being used well into the post-medieval period".
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