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A Fifteenth-Century Mercury-Silvered Buckle from Hillington, Norfolk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

Duncan Hook ,
Susan La Niece  and
John Cherry
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , September 1988 , pp. 301 - 305
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1988

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39 However it should be noted that Mrs Beeton, in the first edition of her book of Household Management (London, 1859, part 21, para. 2316, 995)Google Scholar observed that many proprietary silver cleaning powders at that time contained mercury. Such a polish could leave traces detectable by XRF.

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43 Belt hook (British Museum registration no. OA 1947,7-12,417), deer OA (1936,11-18,257) and bowl (OA 1954, 5-24, 486).

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46 Since this note was written analysis of the belt chape from Broken Wharf, London (pi. XLVife), kindly allowed by Brian Spencer of the Museum of London, has also revealed mercury and silver on the surface, (Museum of London no. A 2565; Perkins, Ward, op. cit. (note 35), pl. 1).Google Scholar Also analysis of an early fifteenth-century buckle from Missenden Abbey (Aylesbury Museum, MA 83, 81) (pi. XLVIc) and an early fifteenth-century copper alloy belt chape from Dinas Powys, Wales (pl. XLVId), inscribed in black letter ihs help m (National Museum of Wales 1987. III H) (Morgannwg, xxxi (1987), 86),Google Scholar showed that they were both mercury-silvered.