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TOY
Unique ID: LON-76DA62
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A Post Medieval lead alloy toy bowl, probably 17th century. The find comprises a miniature lead alloy deep bowl with steep, curving sides and a small foot-ring at the base. The bowl has a lip that extends outwards at a slight angle, and below this lip the exterior of the sides are covered down to the base with a number of fine horizontal striations in parallel. On the interior, the sides have been decorated near the base with a pattern of vertical diagonal lines which are in parallel and very close together. These are quite hard to discern as the interior of the bowl is fairly pock-marked and has some corrosion. Projecting inwards from the base of the bowl is a small hump caused by damage to the exterior of the bowl that has punched a small amount of the metal inwards.
Dimensions: length: 10.13mm; thickness: 1.13mm; diameter at rim: 25.27mm; weight: 4.33g.
Class: Bowl
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 10.13 mm
Thickness: 1.13 mm
Weight: 4.33 g
Diameter: 24.27 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: London (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Greater London Authority (Greater London Authority)
District: Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
Parish or ward: St. Katharine's and Wapping (London Borough Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ3380
Four figure Latitude: 51.503293
Four figure longitude: -0.085156
1:25K map: TQ3380
1:10K map: TQ38SW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forsyth, H. with Egan, G. | 2005 | Toys, Trifles and Trinkets: Base Metal Miniatures from London 1200 to 1800 | London | Unicorn Press Ltd | 243 |
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