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Description: | Copper alloy hanging bowl - the fittings plus fragments of the bowl, which was probably complete or nearly so when found. The group comprises: 3 rings, 3 escutcheons with integral hooks, one with attached vessel wall (two other fragments of vessel wall can be associated with the escutcheons); one ompholos (pushed in) base; 8 rim fragments and two other tiny vessel fragments. The circular escutcheons are openwork, with four devolved pelta shapes cut out on the diagonals, leaving a central cross shape. The backs are slightly concave, the fronts more strongly convex, so that the disc thins to the edges. The hooks have animal head terminals, with a triangular section muzzle and upstanding semicircular ears. The undeside has a step from flat to convex which may also have acted as a stop ridge against the vessel rim. On the top two incised lines run longitudinally to just above a flat releif oval at the junction with the escuteon. One of the escutcheons (A) is incomplete; the breaks are not recent. Another (C) has a rivet immediately below the hook, hammered flat on the front and circular headed at the back, which is holding a piece of the vessel of the same size. Similar circular fragments of vessel can be matched with escutcheons A and B; all were probably held in place by solder. Escutcheon B (complete and without vessel fragment) weighs 28.38gm. The three rings are each 30mm in diameter and circular in section (around 5mm diameter). They weigh 12.83, 13.46 and 13.55gm. The vessel base is virtually complete to the footring which is 86mm in diameter. On the interior a circular (41mm diam) area of paler corrosion and some ?solder residue may indicate a missing mount. The exterior is evenly mottled in colourand has an irregular patch (c.9mm across) of small hammer or punch marks just off centre.The base weighs 34.07mm. The eight pieces of rim are labelled 1-8 for reference. Of these numbers 2,3 and 4 join, numbers 5 and 6 join and either numbers 6 and 7 or 8 and 7. Many of the pieces are bent but a likely diameter is around 170mm (also the total surviving circumference is 529mm which gives a minimum diameter of 168mm). Rim is small and T-shaped with a straight or slightly concave neck; most pieces are broken at the rounded carination at the base of the neck except for parts of 3 and 7. Brenan 1991 illustrates two bowls with similar openwork escutcheons - cat.no. 72 from Wilton, Wilts and no.64, unprovenanced possibly Norfolk - but both had four rather than three escutcheons. Both are larger bowls (base diameter) than the present eg. but the Wilton one is similar in profile and rim form. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Plouviez, Judith | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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