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Description: | Sheet copper alloy vessel fitting, length 75mm, width 40mm, height 13mm, thickness of metal >1mm, weight 21.6g. The artefact is made from a sheet of copper alloy, it is sub-triangular in plan with a concave ridge running down the centre. The ridge has an aperture at the base that would have been 22mm wide and 13mm high, but this has subsequently been distorted. The ridge narrows towards the tip to form a point, the tip of the artefact is damaged. There would have been three rivets holes on either side, all retaining a copper alloy rivet. However, post-depositional damage has meant that much of the base is truncated and resulting in a rivet missing from one side and the tip has been distorted resulting in a rivet missing from the other. There is a smaller flat copper alloy sheet riveted on the that forms the underside.
The object has a mid green patina.
Similar examples have been excavated in London and are fitting on the back of a vessel (in this case a ladle) and formed a handle attachment. The handle fitting into the semicircular aperture, and the semicircular hole securing the handle into place, this has been dated to the late Medieval Period. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adams, Kurt - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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