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Description: | TREASURE CASE: 2008 T178 Incomplete medieval silver sheet with circular perforations. It is 34.93mm long, 12.84mm wide, 0.57mm thick. weight 0.52 grams.
British Museum Treasure Report For 2008/T178
Parish/County: East of Colchester, Essex
A fragment of thin metal sheet perforated with several irregular circular holes, some of which are incomplete. The curved edge indicates that it may originally have been circular or perhaps spoon-shaped.
Utensils with similar components are described as ??Skimmers?? or possible ??Strainers?? in Geoff Egan: The Medieval Household Daily Living c1150-c1450, Nos. 437-40, pp. 155-8.
This example is unusual in being silver, and is of much smaller dimensions. It may have formed part of a liturgical set used to strain the Eucharistic wine.
The fragment is silver and dates from the fourteenth or fifteenth century.
Dimensions: length 35 mm, maximum width 12 mm.
J P Robinson
Curator of Medieval Collections
15th December 2008 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | McLean, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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