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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy trebuchet or tumbrel-type folding coin balance probably dating to the 13th, 14th or 15th century. This type of balance for weighing coins was formed from two arms which pivot in the middle allowing the balance to be opened into a cross shape to be used, or folded flat. One arm would have included an integral pan and weight. Only half of one arm survives; the wider arm which contains the hinge. It is decorated a thick transverse bar at the end before the pointed terminal. This could also be seen as a worn zoomorphic animal head. There is also a thinner raised bar before the raised hinge area. The tumbrel is broken across the box which contained a slot through which the thinner arm would have pivoted on a pin that bridged the two sides of the box. The reverse of the wider arm is hollow to allow the smaller arm to fold into it. Parallels can be seen in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Medieval Catalogue Part 3 Fig. 42, number 6 and a similar example on the database is SWYOR-C16852.
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