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Description: | Cast lead alloy token, probably medieval or early post medieval 14th-17th century. Sub-circular disc; one side has moulded raised decoration of a ten-spoked wheel with a pellet at the centre of alternating spokes, a central pellet, and an inner circle and outer border; the other side is undecorated. Thick cream patina with some patches of dark grey on the obverse. The token appears to have been folded and re-straightened. Length 32.1mm, width 28.1mm, thickness 1.5-2.9mm (max thickness over pellets), weight 9.75g.Fletcher 2005 ("Leaden Tokkens & Tallies", Greenlight) publishes similar tokens with wheel-like designs (p.76) and suggests they may depict waterwheels and be tallies or receipts given out by mills as receipts for sacks of corn etc. He does not give a date for them, although they are included in a chapter on post-Tudor agricultural tallies - however these crude tokens may be earlier than the Tudor period.
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