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Brass Scale Weight

Brass Scale Weight

Brass scale weights would have been used to measure medical compounds, gold and other materials. Such scales were essential when bartering or trading different currencies of precious metals.

Tools and Instruments

  • Basin Fragment
  • Brass Scale Weight
  • Brass Surveying Sight
  • Brass Weights
  • Coin Weight
  • Dividers
  • Fishing Weights
  • Grindstone
  • Gunner's Bar
  • Iron Gouge
  • Large Silver Needle
  • Lead Weight
  • Mechanical Jack
  • Mortar and Pestle
  • Restraining Device
  • Sector
  • Survey Chain
  • Universal Staff Mount
  • Urethral Syringe
  • Whetstone
  • Writing Slate

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Queen Anne's Revenge 
Conservation Lab

ECU West Research Campus
1157 VOA Site C Road
Greenville, N.C. 27834

QAR@ncdcr.gov
(252) 744-6721

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North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources

Intersal, Inc.Nautilus Productions

 

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