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Description: | A medieval shield-shaped lead trade weight. The top face of the weight has a deep grooved border surviving across the top of the shield and down one side; the other side has the remains of a narrow incised line but nothing as obvious as the groove. The top face has a raised fleur de lys at the foot of the shield, and 2 raised dots at the top in the groove (originally 3? but one obscured by plough damage). The lys design may well have had a crown above the lys, but the top is obscured as there is also an additional panel of lead attached to the top face on the upper part of the shield. This is in the shape of an irregular (and now partially broken) hexagon measuring approximately 33x29x7mm. It is attached by a square headed split iron pin (there are two bent over ends emerging from the bottom face of the weight). This presumably corrected a weight which was too light. The piece is presumably a 1lb weight (but weighs more than the 400g maximum our scales go up to.)
These shield weights with royal heraldic designs (lys and lions, with crowns) are relativley common in northern England. | 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
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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