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Description: | MED Part of arm of folding or rigid balance. Sub-square section tapering from 5.5mm at break to >3mm next to an integral cubic boss that is decorated on four faces with a deeply engraved saltire. Next to the boss a loop for suspension of scale-pan. Length 90mm. This is not too long for a folding balance. An arm of an example with two square bosses, found in Winchester in a mid 13th-cent. context, is 117mm long (Biddle 1990, fig.284, no.3211). | 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
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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