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Description: | Rectangular piece of flat lead sheet cast or stamped on one side with a design of a lions or green mans face with the tongue sticking out within a line border. The piece has three straight original sides and one more irregular broken side with a patinated break. The face has an oval mouth with a prominent tongue, long nose, round eyes, ears to the side and either a mane of foliage around it. It is 16.1mm by 14.0mm by 1.7mm thick; it weighs 3.32 grams.The design, whether or a lion or a green man, suggests a Medieval to Post Medieval date. See for example the lion on WILT-42CA17 a harness pendant, DUR-146742, a circular token, or HESH-8D8C67, a mount. It is unusual as a lead token in being rectangular rather than circular and probably stamped rather than cast. This is more common on coin weights but official weights are not made in lead alloy. It may have functioned as a gaming counter, pass, token or possibly even a small weight or part of a seal.
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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