A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 316
nth century. The subjects upon the field are symbols,attributes, and heraldic devices indicating the authorities exer-cising jurisdiction in the provincial towns. There were sometimesmore than one of these, secular (royal, baronial, or municipal)and ecclesiastical (episcopal or abbatial), in which… … J SECTION Fig. 193.—Bronze weight of fourounces, fourteenth century. 270 GLOSSARY The pound was in use everywhere, but it contained a differentnumber of ounces in different places. Uniformity was not attaineduntil the adoption of the metric system at the time of the FrenchRevolution. Attention may…
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