Rights Holder: National Museums Liverpool
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Unique ID: LVPL-2F3D4D
Object type certainty: Certain
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An unidentified lead object, possibly a mould, roughly rectangular in shape and with a central suken area. The design is situated in a sunken circle, part of which has been destroyed by damage to the main lead slab. At the centre is a curving serpent-like design with a tassel of four parts as a tail and an S shaped body, leading to a possible head.
This may only be half of a two-part mould, maybe for the creation of tokens or coin-like objects. There is also the possibility this was used for impressing a design into butter.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Quantity: 1
Length: 46 mm
Width: 35 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight: 66.5 g
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Primary material: Lead Alloy
Decoration style: Zoomorphic
Completeness: Uncertain
Surface Treatment: Incised or engraved or chased
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
No references cited so far.