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More model informationThe smaller weight recovered from the Swash fits within the hand-lead size at 3.5 kg or 7 Amsterdam Pounds, it retained a leather strap 46mm wide had been used to secure a sounding lead to rope, passing through the ‘eye’ (suspension hole) of the lead, each of the slotted ends had the impression of a cord or thin rope c. 5mm wide clearly visible. The Ashley Book of Knotts (Ashley, 1944) states that hand-leads were formally fitted with a leather strop of this type, allowing different lead to be attached to the lines and prevent chafing on the measured lead lines. This weight also appears to be marked with a VII and an unknown symbol indicating its weight.
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