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Description: | A cast copper-alloy balance of Medieval or Post-Medieval date, c 1200-1800.The balance consists a central rod with notched ends to form lugs and a drill circular performation from top to bottom. This would originally have taken a fitting for the suspension of the balance, but the piece is now missing. An arm is attached at each end of the central rod, and both of these are the same in length and decoration. I single lug fits between the double lug of the cenral rod and fixed in position with a copper-alloy rivet/axel. Both arms can still be folded upward. The arm tapers slowly from its base to its tip, with a cuboid moulding close to the base of the arm. This decoration has angled corners and bears four ring-and-dots on its upper face arranged in a lozenge. There is no further decoration along the arm until the quadrupal moulded collar at the end, with a semicircular terminal with a circular perforation.
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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