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Description: | Post-mediaeval copper-alloy weight of circular, slightly taper-edged form and with a slightly raised rim, 25.5mm in diameter and maximum 4mm thickness (to rim), flat base, weight probably meant for half an ounce, though now 0.459oz. On the upper surface are visible a central circular indentation, as from a pin, and to one side a cross with a long stem. Another indent near it may be a crowned mark. This is probably a domestic or mercantile weight from a stacking set for normal scales, of the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries. It is somewhat corroded, perhaps suggesting the reasons for the weight discrepancy. | 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: | 1550
1750 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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