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Description: | A complete medieval or post medieval cast lead alloy sub-circular flat uniface token, c. AD 1250-1800, Powell Class 14. The obverse is decorated with with a raised equal armed cross, with one pellet in two or three quarters and two pellets in the remaining quarter, all enclosed in a raised line border. The reverse is undecorated. The sides have possibly been squashed in, leaving it almost oval in outline.Lead tokens had a wide variety of uses and were made locally; they are therefore hard to date precisely and could be medieval or post medieval in date. Until recently cross and pellet designs were thought to be contemporary with the similar medieval coin designs; however publication of moulds and double faced tokens which combine post medieval initial style designs with cross and pellets suggest the latter continued into the post medieval period.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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