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Description: | Fragment of the rim of a Medieval or Post-Medieval copper alloy skillet with a handle lug attched. The rim is sub-triangular in section. There is a small portion of the body of the vessel still attached. This is fairly thin and has an uneven edge where it broke away from the original vessel. On the inside face are two scratch marks, which probably occurred following deposition. The handle lug extends upwards from the rim. It is rounded and bent slightly out of shape. At the base of this, partially through the rim, is a hole, which probably would have allowed a handle of some sort to be attached to the vessel. The fragment appears to have become slightly flattened, making it difficult to determined the vessel's original circumference. The metal is dark greyish-brown in colour, with patches of orange-brown errosion, but survives in fairly good condition.
A hanging skillet can be seen in Butler and Green's (2003, p.50, no.10) 'English Bronze Cooking Vessels and their Founders 1350-1830', though this one has a seperate, rather than integral, handle lug. Butler and Green (2003, p.10) suggest that the majority of skillets date from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Length: 75.5mm, Width: 55.9mm, Thickness: 5.1mm.
Weight:44.9g. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Booth, Anna - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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