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Description: | A copper-alloy cast mercury flask, incomplete due an old break at one edge. This flask is bulbous in shape, flaring towards its base which is rounded. It measures 50mm in length and 33mm in width at its widest point and is circular in cross-section, the rim (part of which is missing) is 23mm in diameter. This flask has two flat roughly triangular protrusions these are opposite each other and begin at the rim they are 10mm in depth and protrude out from the vessel for 7mm. These protrusions were likely to have been intended as handles or suspension loops, which in this case have not been pierced. This flask is medieval in date and examples have been found in London and Norfolk which have been identified as mercury flasks by G. Egan on the grounds that they must have contained something small and precious (Geake 2001, 48).Since this record was made, another similar object has been found in Surrey (SUR-FA2AB0). This vessel carries the inscription OLEVM CHRISM and therefore presumably contained holy oil.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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