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Description: | Cast lead alloy circular uniface weight or token. The item has the capital letters I G or (1 G) stamped into one side, the other is blank. It is unusual to see stamped decoration which has to be done individually on a token as most tokens were cast into a decorated mould so any design is raised and the moulds could be reused. Stamping is much more common on weights and it maybe this was a home made weight for a particular purpose. It weighs considerably more than a gram or grain and may be for a specialist use. It is 17.6mm in diameter, 2.1mm thick and weighs 4.49 grams. Lead tokens has a wide variety of uses; they, and lead weights such as this, were made locally and are therefore hard to date precisely but the stamped design suggests a 17th-19th century date.
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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