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Description: | A complete cast copper alloy casket or chest handle, dating to the Medieval period, between AD 1300 ?? 1500 (length: 70mm; width: 25mm; thickness: 8mm; weight: 11.9g). The casket or chest handle has an angular ??C?? shaped or ??[?? shaped plan with extending terminals at each end, turning outwards in a 90?? angle. The artefact is also hexagonal in section along the main body of the handle. In the centre of the longest side (length: 49mm) of the handle??s ??[?? shape, there is a bi-conical moulding or protruding area, which is flanked by a single moulded collar at either end (overall length: 15mm; thickness: see above). At the point where the handle terminals turn outwards at an angle, there are slight protrusions to either side where this angle occurs. The terminals are slightly offset and narrowed, presumably to enable attachment to the chest or casket. The terminals also expand outwards into a pointed conical tip (length if tip: 4.5mm; diameter at base of tip: 5.5mm) to either side. There is no other decoration on this artefact and, overall, the handle is in a worn but fair condition with a dark green patina. A very similar example is illustrated in Bailey, G, 1993, ??Detector Finds 2??, pages 10-11, ref no 1, which is also dated to the 14th/ 15th century. Bailey states (page 10) that these handles are thought to have been originally attached to a small chest or cask??..It is doubtful if the handle would have been attached directly to the wood; it is more likely that a copper plate (see illustrations no. 8-9 in Bailey, 1993) was used and then the whole arrangement attached to the cask.?? | Subjects: | handle | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Johnson, Caroline - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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