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Description: | A lead weight of Medieval to Post-Medieval date. 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 the letters R above H with three stars above and foliate branches to left and right, all within a beaded circle. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The weight measures 16.40mm in width, 17.17mm in length, 2.56mm in thickness, and weighs 4.80g. Small square lead weights such as this appear from the 14th or 15th centuries used either as coin weights (see Withers and Withers, 1995: pp. 9) or apothecaries weights (see Biggs, 1992: pp. 7-8). They survive into the Post-Medieval period of the 16th or 17th centuries AD. The letters at the centre of the current example may be a reference to an individual maker as is common on coin weights from continental Europe (Withers and Withers, 1995: pp. 57).
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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