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Description: | A complete cast lead rod, probably a pencil of Medieval to post-Medieval date (c. 1200 - c. 1650).This pencil is circular in cross-section. It tapers to a point at one end and the opposite end is blunt. Close to the blunt end the surface is 'pitted' and at the blunt end there is a circular depression which has a diameter of about 1.4mm and a depth of about 8.0mm. On the side are two small parallel grooves which have been deliberately inscribed.The object has a buff patina. Length: 30.96mm; maximum diameter: 6.48mm. Weight: 10.05g.Dr Helen Geake of the Portable Antiquities Scheme has commented: "The use of lead pencils is still not really understood. At Winchester they are found mainly in 13th- or 14th-century contexts, and it was thought some years ago that when graphite was discovered in Cumbria in the late 16th century lead pencils went out of use; but metal-detector finds of well-made mass-produced pencils suggest that in fact they carried on being used well into the post-medieval period".
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