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Description: | A circular lead trade weight of post-medieval date (17th century). It is decorated unifacially with three incuse stamps. With the stamps orientated upwards, in the top left corner is a crowned 'I' (for King James), in the top right is a sword (of St Paul, for the City of London Guildhall), below them is an angel with scales (for the Plumbers Company), off-centre to the left. The weight is corroded with some denting, and iron corrosion product on the lower surface. At c. 109g, allowing for wear, this weight was probably a four-ounce averdupois weight (113.6g). A larger weight with similar stamps can be found illustrated in Biggs (1992, 45). Although the published example in attributed to James II (1685-1688 AD), a weight from the reign of James I (1603-1625 AD) cannot be ruled out.
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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