Plumb Bobs

This category includes a hanging object with a pointed tip used as a vertical reference line.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
1503	(none)	(none)	(none)	Plumb bob. Drab clay. With hole at end, and one at side. [drawing]
1509	(none)	(none)	(none)	Plumb-bob. Black stone, with hole at end and 3 at side, and remains of copper wire within. Like U.1502. In text, see U.1359
23	(none)	(none)	(none)	Milk-stone? Roughly tooth-shaped (or celt shaped) of mottled black and white granite pierced. [drawing 1:1]
235A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 Stone plumb-bobs . two are pierced transversely. two from the top to the side.
235B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] Stone plumb-bobs (4). 2 are pierced transversely. 2 - from the top to the side.
235C	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] Stone plumb-bobs (4). 2 are pierced transversely. 2 - from the top to the side.
235D	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] Stone plumb-bobs (4). 2 are pierced transversely. 2 - from the top to the side.
2746	(none)	(none)	(none)	Plumb-bob. Dark grey stone. [drawing 1:1]
28	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone plumb-bob. of fine greyish-white limestone. [drawing 1:1]
3041A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone plumb-bobs. A. of buff colored limestone. B. a harder grey stone. [drawing]
3041B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone plumb-bobs. A. of buff colored limestone. B. a harder grey stone. [drawing]
835	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cone. of dark brown stone. Broken below. A hole runs up the centre, and a second is pierced from the side to beyond the middle for a pin to make the cone fast to the peg running up the central hole. On one side scratches, perhaps relics of an inscription. [Handwritten note corrects type to plumb bob] [drawing 1:1]