|
Date: |
|
Description: | A fragment of a lead, toy hornbook of Post-Medieval date (AD 1550-1800). The object is sub-triangular in plan and predominantly flat in section. The object is a cut and folded section from a toy Hornbook. Both sides are decorated with integral raised text and a cross hatched boarder, between each line of text is separated with raised horizontal lines. Due to the folding only one side of the text is visible. The visible text reads: ABCDE//FGHIJKL.The metal is light cream in colour with a smooth patina.Similar examples can be seen on the Portable Antiquities Database: Unique ID: YORYM-FA8FF1, Unique ID: NMS-A499E5 and Unique ID: LIN-4DAAD5Length: 30.80mm, Width: 32.71mm, Thickness: 7.57mm, Weight: 15.6g.Hornbooks proper were used as learning aids and were fairly large tablets printed with the text to be learnt - usually the Lord's Prayer or the alphabet. They were commonly made of wood onto which the printed paper would have been mounted, and then covered with a thin sheet of transparent horn for protection. Smaller, portable tablets of lead-alloy are generally thought to be mass produced versions of hornbooks proper and while still referred to as "hornbooks the term is, in these instances, slightly misleading.Michael Lewis suggests that mistakes and inconsistencies on lead-alloy examples would be ineffective as learning tools and may therefore have been made as toys for children in low-literacy families or perhaps even toys which mimic the hornbook proper and were "owned" by children's dolls.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
TOY
An almost complete cast lead…
-
TOY
An incomplete post medieval lead…
-
TOY
An incomplete lead or lead…
-
TOY
Post Medieval 1500 to 1700AD…
-
TOY
Post Medieval cast lead or…
-
TOY
Post-medieval cast lead hornbook of…
-
TOY
Fragment of a lead-alloy toy…
-
TOY
Post-medieval cast lead-alloy hornbook, a…
-
TOY
Fragment of a lead horn…
-
TOY
Fragment of a copper-alloy hornbook…
|