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Description: | Cast lead object of uncertain function, probably dating to the Post-Medieval period (1500-1700AD). It is sub-rectangular in plan and rectangular in cross-section. On one side of the object is a possible female figure standing beside an object in the form of a beehive or a bishop's hat. A line of inverted triangles run across the base of the object and turns at a right angle running upwards towards the beehive. On the other side of the object are the letters ATE, at a right angle to which are the letters TFT. The two sets of letters are divided by a line of small triangles. When found the object was bent in half along its diagonal, and it was gently opened by the finder. It has a mid-white patina. This object might be a fragment of a lead toy hornbook. Full-size horn books were teaching tablets that usually contained the alphabet or the Lord's Prayer, and which became available during the 16th century. Although the term 'horn book' is commonly used for lead tablets, it is a slightly misleading name. True horn books were made out of wood onto which the printed paper would have been mounted, and then covered with a thin sheet of transparent horn for protection. The lead tablets are far smaller, and would probably have been either toys (Lewis 2012, 98-101) or cheaper versions of the full-size hornbooks. They mainly appear to date from the 17th century. Examples of lead horn books on the database include LIN-339910 and LIN-16BF84
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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