Winchester bushel measure
Winchester Measures were a standardised system of measures used across England to regulate the sale of goods such as grain and coal. This measure is part of a set used at the city's Guildhall until the 1970s.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 1041/1974/1
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- copper alloy
- Common Name
- Winchester bushel measure
- Simple Name
- measure
- Inscription Transcription
- CITY OF EXETER / CHAS DE GRAVE LONDON FECIT; BUSHEL WINCHESTER 1799
- Period Classification
- George III (1760-1811)
- Production Date
- 1799
