Folding balance
This balance was excavated from Exeter. It comprises the central short bar, from whose suspension loop the balance would hang, with one of the two longer folding arms, from which in turn there hangs an elaborate chain.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 78/2003
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- copper alloy
- Common Name
- folding balance
- Simple Name
- balance
- Period Classification
- Late Saxon (900-1066)
