MEDIEVAL WEIGHT

1300

Lead weight. Cast heater shield shaped weight of plano-convex section with the moulded relief design of a fleur de lis on its convex side, and with a stepped border around its field; patinated overall. The mass may suggest this to represent two ounces in either the Tower or Averdepois systems; the latter is favoured by Biggs and Withers (2000, Lead Weights: The David Rogers Collection, English Weights Series no. 6, White House Publications and Galata Print Ltd, Llanfyllin, Powys, pages 34-36), who find that the northern weights with a fleur de lis motif may often be of 15th-century date, and that a two ounce measure is among those commonly reported. Suggested date: Medieval, 1300-1500.Length: 40mm, Width: 29.4mm, Thickness: 8.4mm, Weight: 57.47gms.