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Medieval gaming piece
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National Museums Liverpool , Vanessa Oakden, 2012-08-23 10:30:07
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Medieval gaming piece
Description
English: A cast copper-alloy object, perhaps a gaming piece or a weight. The object is thick, flat and circular, with a raised rim and rounded edges. The upper face of the object is decorated in moulded relief with a stag advancing left. The rear of the object is undecorated and flat. The object has a mid-green patina. It measures 41.06 mm in diameter and is 8.02 mm thick; it weighs 80.2g (1237.7 grains, 2.82 oz).


Close parallels can be found for this object among a group of four Irish copper-alloy discs also decorated with animals of the chase, including a stag, a hare and dogs, published by Roe (1945). Roe interpreted them as gaming pieces (tablesmen). Mark Hall (Perth Museum and Art Gallery) advises that they have since been reinterpreted as weights, but the weight of this example does not obviously conform to any medieval standard. They may perhaps date to the 12th to 14th centuries.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Cheshire East
Date between 1100 and 1400
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1100-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1400-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 517551
Old ref: LVPL-5F7B74
Filename: LVPL-5F7B74.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/393605
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/393605/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/517551
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