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Description: | A copper alloy object that may be part of a candle snuffer or other similar object. It is 60.4mm long, 11.8mm wide and 11.6mm thick. It consists of a moulded section of tube which is damaged on one side where it is open all the way along the back. There are circumferential bulbous mouldings on the top of the tube, where the metal is thick, but none on the damaged underside where the metal is much thinner. From one end of the tube projects a bar which is rectangular in section. It flares at the tube end to merge elegantly into the tube. There is a hollow on the reverse of the bar which may indicate where another element hinged or pivoted on this one. The ends of the object are worn and it is not clear whether they are breaks or whether the object is complete. The object is tentatively identified as a candle snuffer because of similarities with one illustrated on page 69 of Detector Finds by Gordon Bailey which dates from the seventeenth century. However, neither the dating nor identification of this object is certain. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Cooper, Amy - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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