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Description: | A cast lead pan weight of medieval date. The weight is of the form of a frustum (a truncated cone) and thus has bevelled sides: the upper face has a diameter of c. 42mm while the lower face is c. 48mm in diameter. It is decorated unifacially; the lower face is marked and worn but only appears to have two artificial features - a central drilled indentation and a circular depression around this latter. The upper face features a raised floriated cross which divides the field into quarters. In each quarter is a quatrefoil comprising four conjoined bosses. These appear to be either foliate or fruit as they are each joined by a 'stem' to a central circle. The fleur-de-lys terminals comprise three lobes. There is a further tranverse bar beneath the terminals on each arm of the cross. As alluded to above, each arm meets a central circle which features a cross in saltire and a pellet in each quarter. Floriated cross weights tend to be dated to the 12th or 13th centuries (Saunders ed. 2001, 126) but are not often as well decorated as this example. | 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: | 1100
1300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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