Cold Market

The Cambridge market handling worked flint, specialist clays, refractory stone, imported material and posted prices for creature parts, with a dozen or so examiners appointed by the Collegium and paid by the market.

The Cambridge market for retrieved material, whose examiners judge specimens and bills of taking.

Named with it

• Factor Ysolde Vane of the Cold Market

Ties

• examiners appointed by the White Walls Assay Collegium

At the table

Its examiners' rulings on beast versus marked parts are final within the market, appealable only to the wardens; they have twice been found guilty of favouritism in eighty years. Its examiners are more feared than its clerks: the bill will pass and the specimen will not. An outbid retrieval company sees to it that the market examiners look hard at the winner's bills.