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Description: | Copper alloy fragment of an adjustable candleholder from the Medieval period.
The object is incomplete, retaining only about half the components of the complete object. A single folding arm remains, along with the locking plate of the lost second arm and the swivel-tab that fixes the arm into position with the locking plate. There is no candle cup.
The folding arm consists of a flat strip bent into a U-shape. The wider hinge-base of the arm has the locking plate still attached. The plate is fixed to the arm perpendicularly. The plate is semi-circular in plan, with a triangular notch missing from one side.
The top end is where the candle cup would have been attached. This end is broken, but there would have been rivets to hold the cup in place. The lower end is where the second arm would have attached, the beginning of which remains with the locking plate.
A similar example can be seen in Medieval Household, Fig 115 (Egan, G 1998: 147). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | McIntosh, Frances | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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