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Description: | A large probable lamp suspender, with a central circular suspension loop, measuring 19mm in external diameter and 9mm in internal diameter. The suspension loop projects from a solid rectangular base, 10mm by 11mm in size, projecting down from the centre of the base of this is a shank, which passes through a seperate part of this object, terminating in a circular rove. This second element of the lamp suspender consists of a trifoliate centre with three arms projecting from this. One of the trifoliate lobes, which project from inbetween the three arms, has a circular perforation through it measuring 6.5mm in diameter. Two of the arms are bent at their tips and one is straight, the straight arm measures c33mm in length and c16mm in width, it is likely that all three arms were originally straight. Each of the arms terminates in another suspension loop, set at right angles to the plane of the arm itself. Traces of gilding can be seen on this lamp suspender. Its form is similar to those discovered in London, a central suspension loop from which three arms project with suspension loops at their terminals, however the London examples are cast in one (Egan 1998, 130-131, fig 99). It is likely that copper-alloy chains hung from the ends of the arms and held the lamp/censer. The London examples have been dated to the late 14th and early 15th centuries and it is likely that this example is also medieval and of a similar date range. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1350
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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