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Description: | Fragment of cast copper alloy tankard handle of Corcoran Class IIIa. Approximately just under one half of the handle survives. The terminal of the handle would once have been formed from a flat, circular disc, but due to damage now has an irregular outline, making it subrectangular in plan. There is a single rivet hole, with the copper alloy rivet now missing. With the terminal placed flat and horizontally, at the bottom end of the terminal is an integral, thick solid semicircular flange which rises vertically at an angle just under 90 degrees. From the top of the flange, the openwork bow of the handle arches up and away. The bow is truncated. What remains is a complete circular loop, with a further half a circular loop surviving beyond that. It is impossible to conjecture what may have proceeded beyond the second loop, but it is possible that there was a solid, moulded central section or boss, and then the two open loops were mirrored on the other side with an opposing terminal. The break edges are worn smooth, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. Much of the original surface survives with an even mid green patina, though slight abrasion and pitting reveals a lighter green surface below. The object is 25.36mm long, 9.36mm wide across the terminal, 13.86mm wide across the flange and 11.32mm wide across the bow of the handle. The handle is 1.26mm thick at the terminal, 3.6mm thick at the bow and weighs 3.09g.A similar and complete example of a tankard handle can be seen in Corcoran, 1952, Tankards and tankard handles of the British Early Iron Age in Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, Volume XVIII, plate X, number 3. Corcoran dates type IIIa handles to the 1st century AD.
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