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Description: | Medieval cast lead pan weight with "floriated cross" design. The base is flat the sides slightly angled and the flat top has a raised design. The exact details of the equal armed cross are unclear due to corrosion but it appears to have main lobed arms the rounded ends of which are flanked by raised ovals running parallel to the edge, creating an almost fleur de lis style terminal; between each cross arm is a thin central branch radiating out from the centre with two pairs of rounded leaves coming off it and a fifth leaf or flower head at the terminal. It is 44.6mm in diameter, 11.3mm thick and weighs 99 grams, 3.5 ounces. Biggs (1992) illustrates several similar weights, p.41, with a range of designs. He suggests (ibid.) such weights were used to measure large bullion payments and were in use between the 12th and 13th centuries.
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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