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Description: | 2008 T178 Incomplete medieval silver sheet with circular perforations. It is 34.93mm long, 12.84mm wide, 0.57mm thick. weight 0.52 grams.British Museum Treasure Report For 2008/T178 Parish/County: East of Colchester, EssexA fragment of thin metal sheet perforated with several irregular circular holes, some of which are incomplete. The curved edge indicates that it may originally have been circular or perhaps spoon-shaped.Utensils with similar components are described as "Skimmers" or possible "Strainers" in Geoff Egan: The Medieval Household Daily Living c1150-c1450, Nos. 437-40, pp. 155-8.This example is unusual in being silver, and is of much smaller dimensions. It may have formed part of a liturgical set used to strain the Eucharistic wine.The fragment is silver and dates from the fourteenth or fifteenth century.Dimensions: length 35 mm, maximum width 12 mm.J P Robinson Curator of Medieval Collections 15th December 2008
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