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Description: | Top half of 17th century brass dividers. The two arms have been broken off just below the bent mid-section and the upper parts are slightly encrusted with corrosion and thus stuck within in each other at the hinge. The two arms would have terminated in a sharp point each.
Generally, dividers are associated with naval charts and sea fare, but they were also used by architects and furniture makers and builders - any profession that requires exact measurements. | 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: | 1600
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Dot Boughton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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