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Description: | Part of a copper alloy steelyard, consisting of a round sectioned arm with notched calibrations, 4mm apart on one side and 17mm apart on the other. At one end the rod is widens to a flat spatulate shape. This has a 4mm diameter hole at the rounded end and two similarly sized, but distorted loops, offset on either side. The side loops correspond with the two sets of calibration notches. From one of these loops hangs a round ended suspension hook. At the narrow end it passes through the loop and is wound round itself to secure it. The other end is curved up into the hook. Judging from a more complete example found in excavations in Colchester (Crummy 1983, p99-100) there would have been another matching hook attached through the other loop, allowing the opposite calibrations on the arm to be used. There would also have been a ring through the end loop from which the chains of the scale pan hung. | 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: | 43
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Jennifer Moss | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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