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TUMBREL
Unique ID: SWYOR-47D771
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy stirrup or pivot arm of a trebuchet or tumbrel-type folding coin balance. The arm has a stylised zoomorphic snakes head terminal with a collar. At the opposite end of the incomplete arm there is a slot, in the sides of which are two opposing holes to take a pin on which the balance beam pivoted. The arm is hollow and oval in cross section to allow the balance beam to be folded away into this gap. The portable balance was used to check the weight of coinage. The arm fragment weighs 10.9g; is 49.8mm in length and has a thickness of 5.8mm at the central pivoting section. The width of the arm across where the pivot pin would exist is 9.8mm. Parallels can be seen in Salisbury Medieval Catalogue Part 3 Fig. 42, and in Medieval Artefacts by Nigel Mills (NM.219a & b).
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1500
Date to: AD 1599
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 49.8 mm
Width: 9.8 mm
Thickness: 5.8 mm
Weight: 10.9 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st January 2004 - Thursday 1st January 2004
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Yorkshire (County)
District: Ryedale (District)
Parish or ward: Rillington (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE8475
Four figure Latitude: 54.16394138
Four figure longitude: -0.71496725
1:25K map: SE8475
1:10K map: SE87NW
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mills, N. | 1999 | Medieval Artefacts | Greenlight Publishing | NM.219a & b | |||
| Saunders, P. | 2001 | Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Medieval Catalogue Part 3 | Salisbury | Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum |
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