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Description: | Complete folding balance made in four parts. In the centre is a long triangular pointer with a suspension hole at the base. Below the hole is an integral rivet which passes through a vertical hole in the centre of an oval-section horizontal bar. In each end of the horizontal bar is a slot with a copper-alloy hinge bar. Each hinge bar holds a circular-section arm, flattened at the hinge, with a rectangular boss at the far end and then an expanded flattened terminal. One terminal retains a small copper-alloy ring with overlapping ends. Unusually, they retain traces of gilding. The arms are now corroded in the folded position; originally they would have opened out and pans suspended from them by string. The triangular pointer would have been suspended from its hole and as the balance tipped one way or the other the pointer would have moved to show underweight, overweight or just right. Parallels can be found from London (Egan 1998, no. 1055) and Norwich (Margeson 1993, 1572-3). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1300
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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