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To ensure fair trade, burghs each kept a set of standard weights and measures against which those in commercial use could be checked. This set of nine brass weights, pictured here in their fitted mahogany box, belonged to the Royal Burgh of Dunbar in East Lothian. They date from 1826.

The weights are for 8, 4, 2, 1 Imperial ounces, and 8, 4, 2, 1 and a half Imperial drams. (A dram is one-sixteenth of an ounce).

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• Online ID: 000-190-004-177-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.VH 126 J
• Date: 1826
  
• Material: Brass
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• Dimensions: 24 mm H x 168 mm L x 90 mm W
  
• What: Box, weight
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• Description: Mahogany box for small weights, which belonged to the Royal Burgh of Dunbar
  Brass 8oz weight, one of a set contained in a mahogany box, from the Royal Burgh of Dunbar
  Brass 4oz weight, one of a set contained in a mahogany box, from the Royal Burgh of Dunbar
  Brass 2oz weight, one of a set contained in a mahogany box, from the Royal Burgh of Dunbar
  Brass 1oz weight, one of a set contained in a mahogany box, from the Royal Burgh of Dunbar
  Brass 8dr weight, one of a set contained in a mahogany box, from the Royal Burgh of Dunbar
  Brass 4dr weight, one of a set contained in a mahogany box, from the Royal Burgh of Dunbar
  Brass 2dr weight, one of a set contained in a mahogany box, from the Royal Burgh of Dunbar
  Brass 1dr weight, one of a set contained in a mahogany box, from the Royal Burgh of Dunbar
  Brass 1/2dr weight, one of a set contained in a mahogany box, from the Royal Burgh of Dunbar
  
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