Bronze dish

Made:
1488 in England

Bronze dish, old, for measuring lead ore, formerly used in Wirksworth Wapentake, in the King's Field, Derbyshire. Made in 4th year of the reign of Henry VIII.

Details

Category:
Weighing & Measuring
Object Number:
1902-95/1
Materials:
bronze (copper, tin alloy)
type:
ore capacity measure
credit:
Museum of Practical Geology