Record ID: LON-34AAB1 - POST MEDIEVAL toy

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TOY

Unique ID: LON-34AAB1

Object type certainty: Certain

A resized image of Post medieval lead alloy toy watch

A slightly corroded and bent post-medieval openwork lead-alloy toy watch. The object is flat, circular and unifacially moulded in low relief. Within a beaded border is an openwork design of a lozenges within a circle with a scroll on either side; this design is repeated equally four times. The inner part of the border design touches the chapter ring which is marked with the Roman hours I-XII with pellet half-hour marks. The dial centre is enclosed within another pellet border; this centre is again openwork with a scroll in each quarter, divided by central cross. The cross has 3 pellets at its centre; one in the centre and one adjoining on the vertical arms; these pellets may indicate that these lines represent the hands of the clock. On the outer edge directly above XII on the face is a loop imitating the attachment loop of a pocket watch. This is now bent, and part of the outer beaded border has broken off. The toy measures 59.4mm (length) x 51.1mm (width) x 1.8mm (thickness) and weighs 10.21g.

Forsyth and Egan (2005, 338) date toy watches to c.1625 to 1800 AD.

Notes:

This toy watch was found with an identical second toy, on this database as LON-348B90

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: Circa AD 1625
Date to: Circa AD 1800

Dimensions and weight

Length: 59.4 mm
Width: 51.1 mm
Thickness: 1.8 mm
Weight: 10.21 g
Quantity: 1

Materials and construction

Primary material: Lead Alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Cast [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Incomplete [scope notes | view all attributed records]

Spatial data

Region: South East And London
County: Greater London
District: Southwark
Parish: Bermondsey Rotherhithe And Southwark

Restricted 4 Figure grid reference: TQ3479
The map has been degraded and provides an approximate location with a degree of random obfuscation.
Grid reference source: GPS (From FLO)
Grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Method of discovery: Metal detector [scope notes]
General landuse: Open fresh water [scope notes]
Specific landuse: Running water [scope notes]

Personal details

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Recorded by: Miss Kath Creed - [ view all attributed records]
Identified by: Miss Kath Creed - [view all attributed records]

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