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Description: | LeadCounter. Disc, perhaps cut from lead sheet, bearing a crudely incised cross on one side, and a pattern of rectilinear crossing lines on the other. Patinated overall. The grid pattern may represent a counting or game board; past-times using counters of this form such as Tables (resembling backgammon) or Alquerque (similar in some respects to draughts) might be played on such a gridded surface. It may have been intended to differentiate this counter from others. Both medieval playing pieces and playing boards were often improvised and ephemeral items.Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1500.Diameter: 24.9mm, Thickness: 3.3mm, Weight: 14.47gms.
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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