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Description: | One half of a broken medieval two-piece folding tumbrel (portable coin balance). The forked end broke off at the small rivets that were holding the arm in place. This end is decorated with cross-hatched pattern while the smaller end has a zoomorphic (snake head?) terminal. The two-piece folding scales, when opened out, could be sued to check whether a coin was overweight. By placing a silver penny on the pan, the balance was used to show if the coin was the correct weight. | 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
1350 | 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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