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Description: | A cast copper alloy Medieval steelyard weight, incomplete. The weight is represented by the outer casing only; originally this would have been filled with lead alloy. The casing is globular in shape and is incomplete with most of the bottom missing. The apex of the weight has a triangular suspension loop through which is a single loop of an iron chain, from which the weight would have been suspended. The casing is decorated with three embossed heraldic shields around its girth; these shields are worn and hard to discern but appear to depict a) a spread-eagle, b) lion rampant? c) unidentified. Some medieval steelyard weights carry psuedo-heraldic designs, as this example may do whereas official London weights carried the arms of Richard Earl of Cornwall, his son Edmund or the de Clares; the lion rampart, the spread eagle or the chevrons (Ward Perkins (1940: 171-173). These weights are thought to date to the later 13th century AD.
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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