Accession No
1886.52.6
Description
Standard Avoirdupois bell weight (2 lbs) with loop handle. Marked 'II li' and inscribed 'ANo DO 15 [crown] EL 88 REG XXX'.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Cambridge; Cambridge University; Old Schools
Period
Post Medieval 16th century
Source
Cambridge University [donor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Bronze
Local Term
Measurements
Events
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 (admin)
Context (References)
Gunther, R.T. (1937). Early Science in Cambridge. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 28, no. 18
Event Date 1937
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
R.T. Gunther (1937): '[One] of 6 Standard Avoirdupois Bell Weights... II li... Inscribed ANo DO 15 [crown] EL 88 REG XXX.'
Event Date 1937
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Other)
Possibly part of the loan sent to the Science Museum in 1946.
Event Date 16/3/1939
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Standard Avoirdupois bell weight (7 lbs), marked with a crown and 'EL'.
Event Date 16/2/2025
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
FM:324780
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