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Description: | A Post Medieval lead alloy powder measure. The measure consists of a short cylinder with sides that taper inwards towards a solid base. It was circular in plan but has been squashed flat at the open end. The base has a central pellet surrounded by two concentric rings. There are two semicircular shaped loops each attached on diametrically opposite sides of the base, in between which and running up the sides of the measure there are raised scars from the casting seam. Egan in his book Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition; p201; No.1108, illustrates these measures, and dates them through ceramic association to circa 1675-1700.
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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