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TOY
Unique ID: HAMP-673B93
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A slightly corroded and bent post-medieval lead-alloy toy watch. The object is circular and bifacially moulded in low relief. Within a wide border is a symmetrical design of four lozenges between stylised flowerheads and ring-and-dot motifs. The sides of the lozenges are concave. 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 plain dial centre is enclosed within another pellet border. The single hand with counterpoise and arrowhead pointer is at 12 o'clock. The design is repeated on the other surface broadly at a 12 o'clock die axis relationship.
The object can be compared directly with a watch illustrated in Forsyth and Egan (2005, 359; ref. 12.33), classified as their Type 5, Design 22. This is dated approximately to the late 17th to early 18th century. This example has been bent slightly in profile. One face bears some concretions.
Class: watch
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1675
Date to: Circa AD 1725
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 33.6 mm
Width: 32.8 mm
Thickness: 3.25 mm
Weight: 10.54 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: E3203
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: New Forest (District)
To be known as: Ringwood CP
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 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 | 359 | 12.33 |
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