Description (Physical description)
Bell weight with Royal Arms
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
Accession Register for 1886.52 notes: 'Transferred from the Registry in 1885.'
Event Date 1885
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1886.52[.1-15]: 'A set of thirteen weights and two cubic measurements (reign of Queen Elizabeth)'.
Event Date 1886
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
There is a photograph of this object on display in the Loan Exhibition of Historic Apparatus in Cambridge, held in the East Room of the Old Schools in June 1936, in Gunther's 1937 publication.
Event Date 6/1936
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Gunther, R.T. (1937). Early Science in Cambridge. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 27 (illustrated)
Event Date 1937
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
R.T. Gunther (1937): '[One] of 6 Standard Avoirdupois Bell Weights... LVI li... Inscribed ANo DO 15 [crown] EL 88 REG XXX.'
Event Date 1937
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Other)
Previously on loan to the Science Museum, from 1946 to pre-1978.
Event Date 1946
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for Z 26421: 'Bronze weight [56 lbs] Royal Arms 1588'
Event Date 10/8/1978
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Bell shaped with handle on the top. Stamped on the top is "LVI".
Event Date 8/2000
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Exchequer standard avoirdupois bronze bell weight (56 lbs) with solid loop handle. The slightly domed upper surface is stamped towards the front ‘LVI li A', with a small crown over ‘EL' stamped towards the rear; the front of the weight’s body is stamped 'AN[n]o DO[mini] 1588’; beneath this rests a crown over ‘EL’, with ‘Ao REG XXX’ stamped beneath.
Event Date 18/2/2025
Author: Zahni Blumenthal