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Description: | Modern tap; cast copper alloy spout from a barrel tap of probable 18th or early 19th century date. The spout is a curved tube of sturdy copper alloy. It has a tapering section at the nozzle end, of circular cross-section. There is then a collar forming ridge across the top half of the spout. The area above this is facetted to an approximate hexagonal cross-section. This represents the very base of the barrel tap, the ridge being to hang a bucket or container on and thus allow the liquid to pour straight into it.
More complete examples of taps with similar spouts are recorded on the database. See, for instance, IOW-D0D9F6, which is complete, or SUSS-1FF3C6, which has a similar spout, but with the circular nozzle missing.
Length 45.6mm, width 18.4mm, thickness 15.8mm, weight 36.74g
Refs: See Bailey??s article in Detector Finds 2, pages 60-63, especially figures 19 & 21, illustrated on page 63. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rohde, Anja | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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