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Description: | Fragment of a lead horn book. The fragment is square and flat, and has two original edges, being the top and the left hand side. The reverse of the book is decorated in its entirety with a moulded criss-cross design. The face of the horn book contains two lines of the alphabet, seperated by a thick horizontal line of hash marks. The letters read ABC on the first line, and FGH on the second. Horn books were teaching tablets that usually contained the alphabet or the Lords prayer. They became available during the 16th century, however although the term 'horn book' is commonly used for lead tablets, it is a slightly misleading name. True horn books were made out of wood onto which the printed paper would have been mounted, and then covered with a thin sheet of transparent horn for protection. The lead tablets are presumably cheaper versions of these books. | 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: | 1500
1699 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adam Daubney | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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