Find Spot record 1595700000 - The Old Bakery, Skirmett

In March 1980 a lead trade token was brought to the Museum for identification. The token is unusual in that it actually bears a date, as well as a pair of initials. One side has what appear to be rudimentary human figures, but they are made difficult to distinguish by wear and damage to the disc. The other face carries the date, '1716, and letters presumed to be 'DS'. Both are back-to-front, suggesting that the maker had little experience in making moulds and casting metals, but this is quite a common feature of lead tokens. All the work is embossed and the alignment of the two halves of the mould appears to have been out of true as the two faces are slightly offset from each other. The token, if such it be, measures 21mm in diameter and weighs 6.7g and was discovered under the floor of the Old Bakery in Skirmett. [Illustration and discussion](B1).