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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy suspension device probably for a medieval hanging lamp (max. surviving H.: 25.7mm). It is triangular in plan with a raised central apex from which emerges a broken suspension loop. Directly below, on the lower surface is an intact loop within which are the corroded remains of small copper-alloy chain links. The triangular base (side L.: c. 28.4mm) is moulded with rounded apexes and three outcurves on each edge. There are two internal circular perforations on each side, two of which contain some of the chain. At each corner of the triangle is an extension into a perforated arm. Only one of the loops is intact. It terminates in a straight edge. There is a short waist before the perforated terminal (arm L.: c. 13.4mm). Similar objects, identified as lamp hangers, are illustrated in Egan (1998, 131, refs. 356, 357) and Read (2001, 124, 127; refs. 900, 901) and are dated to the later medieval period. This artefact, however, is more elaborate than any of the published examples. Egan (1998, 130) notes that medieval ecclesiastical censers are similar to, though usually more robust than, these objects.
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