File:Post Medieval apothecary weight (front and reverse) (FindID 662155).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file (3,817 × 3,070 pixels, file size: 893 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Post Medieval apothecary weight (front and reverse)
Photographer
Birmingham Museums Trust, Victoria Allnatt, 2015-02-10 21:58:53
Title
Post Medieval apothecary weight (front and reverse)
Description
English: A copper-alloy apothecary weight, of probable Post-Medieval to modern date. The weight is square in plan and rectangular in cross section. The obverse face depicts the letters 'Z and R'. The R has a pellet at the end of each foot. The reverse face is stamped with a single 'R' which also has the pellets at each foot. The surface is fairly abraded so it is possible that other stamped letters are no longer visible. The weight has a dark green to brown patina. The earliest copper-alloy apothecary weights were made from square pieces of copper-alloy, stamped with traditional symbols for the number of drachms. Biggs (1992:p8) shows similar brass weight examples with traditional symbols.

This apothecary weight measures 11.1mm in length, 10.1mm in width, 2.2mm in thickness, 1.5g in weight.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Telford and Wrekin
Date between 1618 and 1900
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1618-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 662155
Old ref: HESH-246C9F
Filename: HESH246C9F.jpg
Credit line
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/504534
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/504534/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/662155
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 5 December 2020)
Object location52° 45′ 27.36″ N, 2° 24′ 45.61″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Licensing

[edit]
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Attribution: Birmingham Museums Trust
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current21:46, 28 February 2019Thumbnail for version as of 21:46, 28 February 20193,817 × 3,070 (893 KB)Fæ (talk | contribs)Portable Antiquities Scheme, HESH, FindID: 662155, post medieval, page 7058, batch count 10258

You cannot overwrite this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Post_Medieval_apothecary_weight_(front_and_reverse)_(FindID_662155).jpg&oldid=732280372"