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Description: | Copper alloy incomplete tap, 95mm in length, flaring from 16mm diam at one (closed) end to a point c.18mm from the other (broken) end, which then tapers slightly to 16mm diam at the break. The closed end is a disc inserted after casting and has three 2mm diam holes in it. Four (rather higgledy piggledy) lines of four 2mm diam holes radiate c.25mm from the closed end along the body of the tap. The body is decorated with shallow grooves, extending lengthways but at a slight curved diagonal, from the closed end to the point where the object begins to taper. From here the body is smooth and in one place fattened (again lengthways) which stops the object rolling when placed body-down on a flat surface. When inserted into a barrel, liquid would have flowed through the holes at a controlled rate and a tap (now broken off) would have given access to the liquid. 18th/19th century.
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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