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This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. --------------- Dear Sarah and all Yes, there’s a pair in the collections of Carisbrooke Castle Museum on the Isle of Wight, so identified. Crispin On 5 Feb 2014, at 15:57, Sarah Maultby <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. ------------------------------- > Hi Michaela > This may seem like a bizarre suggestion, but is it a weight that farmers would strap on to cow's or bull's horns to weigh them down and try to shape them so they were the right shape and distance apart to win classes at Agricultural shows? > I am currently working for a social history collection in Malton, North Yorkshire and one of the collectors Sid Woodhams has collected something very similar but it has two of the lead weights, one for each horn. This is the explanation he gave me for what these objects are. I have no verification for his story but it sounds quite plausible! > Let me know if you discover any more information about your object. > Thanks > Sarah Maultby > Collections Officer > Woodhams-Stone Collection, Malton > > > On 5 February 2014 12:48, Jackson-Smith, Micahla <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. ------------------------------- > Hello all, > > > Can anyone help identify this item, which has been passed on from a colleague in Archaeology. > > > The item is made up of a small lead vessel/bowl with a leather strap attached to it. The leather strap looks rivetted to the lead as well as having been part of the casting. There is no stopper or cap for the lead bowl. It is quite heavy, too. > > > Any suggestions would be much appreciated. > > > Many thanks > > > > Micahla > > > > > Micahla Jackson-Smith > > Curator, Social History > > Lancashire County Museum Service > > Stanley Street, Preston. PR1 4YP. > > T: 01772 534211 F: 01772 534079 > > E:[log in to unmask] > > > Website: www.lancashire.gov.uk/museums > > > > Stay healthy for your loved ones. If you’re 40-74 find out more about a free NHS health check > > ******************** > > This e-mail contains information intended for the addressee only. > > It may be confidential and may be the subject of legal and/or professional privilege. > > If you are not the addressee you are not authorised to disseminate, distribute, copy or use this e-mail or any attachment to it. > > The content may be personal or contain personal opinions and unless specifically stated or followed up in writing, the content cannot be taken to form a contract or to be an expression of the County Council's position. > > Lancashire County Council reserves the right to monitor all incoming and outgoing email. > > Lancashire County Council has taken reasonable steps to ensure that outgoing communications do not contain malicious software and it is your responsibility to carry out any checks on this email before accepting the email and opening attachments. > > The SHCG list is provided for members of Social History Curators Group to discuss subjects relevant to social history in museums. To join SHCG visit www.shcg.org.uk . Opinions expressed in this email are the responsibility of the author and are not necessarily shared by SHCG. To leave the list do not reply to this message but send an email to [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and these words as the body of the email: SIGNOFF SHCG-LIST > > The SHCG list is provided for members of Social History Curators Group to discuss subjects relevant to social history in museums. To join SHCG visit www.shcg.org.uk . Opinions expressed in this email are the responsibility of the author and are not necessarily shared by SHCG. To leave the list do not reply to this message but send an email to [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and these words as the body of the email: SIGNOFF SHCG-LIST The SHCG list is provided for members of Social History Curators Group to discuss subjects relevant to social history in museums. To join SHCG visit www.shcg.org.uk . Opinions expressed in this email are the responsibility of the author and are not necessarily shared by SHCG. To leave the list do not reply to this message but send an email to [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and these words as the body of the email: SIGNOFF SHCG-LIST