Record ID: ESS-994148
Object type: WRITING AND DRAWING EQUIPMENT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern fragment of a lead alloy printing plate. The survivng section depicts a standing male figure. The head is oval, with small raised dots for the eyes and nose. His shirt has a long, pointed collar. The figure is holding a ?box. The figures left leg is placed slightly in front of the right. There is a raised band below each knee. The feet taper to a point. The reverse of the fragment is corroded, hoever a few oblique lines are visible. It is 55.22mm long, 19.36mm wide, 5.57mm thick and weighs 23.55 grams.
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-2480B7
Object type: WRITING AND DRAWING EQUIPMENT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead unidentified object, circular in section, and narrowing from 9.2mm diameter at one end to 7.0mm diameter at the other. It weighs 28.33g and is 81.5mm in length. The surface is extremely pitted. The object may have been used as a writing implement but it is a lead object of any date between the late medieval period and the 19th century with a purpose that we can only guess at.
Created on: Tuesday 30th September 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swindon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-7DB472
Object type: WRITING AND DRAWING EQUIPMENT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy pen of probable medieval date. Knobbed shaft with four longitudinal rows of linked lozengiform facets; hollows between. Roughly hemispherical knop with flat, sub-circular terminal. Between the knop and the knobbed decoration the shaft narrows to a diameter of c. 3.5mm over a length of 11.2mm. There is a similar plain, narrow section between the knobbed decoration on the shaft and the lanceolate end, 14.7mm in length. The lanceolate end is 27.9mm in length, 7.3mm at its widest point before tapering to a point. There is a bevelled groove filed along each side t…
Created on: Tuesday 21st June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-BA0AC2
Object type: WRITING AND DRAWING EQUIPMENT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead alloy printing block, dating to the post medieval period (circa 1700 AD). The printing block has the letter B on it and is rectangular in shape.
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brooks Wharf', grid reference and parish protected.