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TUMBREL
Unique ID: SWYOR-519247
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper alloy trebuchet or tumbrel-type folding coin balance probably dating to the 13th, 14th or 15th century. This type of balance for weighing coins was formed from two arms which pivot in the middle allowing the balance to be opened into a cross shape to be used, or folded flat. One arm would have included an integral pan and weight. Only half of one arm survives; the wider arm which contains the hinge. It is decorated a thick transverse bar at the end before the pointed terminal. This could also be seen as a worn zoomorphic animal head. There is also a thinner raised bar before the raised hinge area. The tumbrel is broken across the box which contained a slot through which the thinner arm would have pivoted on a pin that bridged the two sides of the box. The reverse of the wider arm is hollow to allow the smaller arm to fold into it. Parallels can be seen in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Medieval Catalogue Part 3 Fig. 42, number 6 and a similar example on the database is SWYOR-C16852.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 46.9 mm
Width: 9.1 mm
Thickness: 7.5 mm
Weight: 10.3 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st August 2010 - Monday 8th November 2010
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: PAS form number 1298
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Yorkshire (County)
District: Harrogate (District)
Parish or ward: Spofforth with Stockeld (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE3752
Four figure Latitude: 53.962766
Four figure longitude: -1.437547
1:25K map: SE3752
1:10K map: SE35SE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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