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Description: | A cast copper alloy cup-weight of Medieval date (1100-1400). The weight is circular in plan and the taper slightly towards the base. Inside the weight the base is flat with a small central circular depression measuring 2.83mm in diameter. On the interior and exterior sides there are two pairs of parallel grooves. There is a hole on either side of the weight with fragments of copper alloy wire as if the cup was suspended or had a lid secured by this wire. The external base of the weight is flat and has a worn criss-cross design. The rim is almost flat. The weight has a mottled mid green patina and patches of red corrosion. The weight weighs 60g and measures 39.1mm diameter, and 22.36mm deep.These types of weights were used for weighing gold and silver in the form of coin, small objects or as scrap metal or other precious materials (Saunders, P 2001 Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Medieval Catalogue, Part 3 Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Salisbury, 125). A similar cup weight illustrated in Egan (Egan, G. 1998 The Medieval Household: Daily Living c. 1150 - c. 1450 The Stationary Office: London) 998, 309-10, fig. 230, ref. 976, was found in London within an archaeological context which was dated by related ceramics to c. 1200 - c. 1230. These examples are not decorated with linear decoration, which is similarly found on later Medieval candlesticks for example. The surface of the recorded weight and the linear decoration perhaps suggests a slightly later date, 15th to 17th century.
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