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Description: | A complete lead shield shaped weight, measuring 57mm in length, 41mm in width and 15mm thick. The back face of this weight is flat and the front face is convex with an indented pattern of some sort in its centre, which is no longer clear. The front face also has a indented boarder with diagonal grooves within it, perhaps representing rope. This weight belongs to a very distinctive group of shield shaped weights. Many other examples have a royal insignia, either one lion rampant, or three lions passant, or a crowned lis. The dating of the weights is uncertain, some seem to belong to the period following the conversion (c1390-90) of the trade pound from a subdivision into 15 ounces to a binary scale of 16 ounces. It seems these weights were a sign of the desire to standardise the weight system used in trade, they continued to be used through out the 15th century (Biggs 1993, 42-43). | 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: | 1380
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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