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Description: | A cast copper-alloy handle of a sheet-metal vessel for warming ale or water etc. The object consists of a tube which narrows and then flattens out to become a sub-trapezoidal plate. The plate would have been attached to a sheet metal vessel. A rivet protrudes from the flatter yet less smooth face of the plate. This is the surface to which the vessel would have been attached. The hollow would have had a separate, wooden handle inserted, allowing the whole thing to have been pushed from a distance towards or actually into the embers (see J. Seymour Lindsay, Iron and Brass Implements of the English House, 1970, p 28 figs 131-2 for late eighteenth or nineteenth century examples). The copper alloy handle is 129.42 mm long and weighs 153.12g. The diameter of the tube reduces from 29.25mm at the opening, to 15.68mm where it flattens to become the plate to which the sheet metal vessel was attached. This plate is 44.75mm at its widest point, reducing to 20.22mm at its terminal. The parallels are a good guide for this fragment's date (i.e late eighteenth or nineteenth century). Despite the likely late date, this object is recorded due to its interesting nature.
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