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Description: | Lead rod, sub-triangular in cross-section, with one end tapering to a conical point. One face is more or less flat and the other two faces have a broad longitudinal flute. The apex between the two fluted sides is decorated with two longitudinal lines of dots; the centre of the flat reverse is decorated with a short longitudinal line of dots near the pointed end. The manufacture of this object is a little careless and it is now slightly bent. 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. | 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: | 1066 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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