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Description: | The object is a probable crucible fragment, which David Symons (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery) suggests possibly dates to the 15th to 17th centuries, or Late Medieval to Post Medieval. The object is ceramic and is incomplete.
The object is mid pinkish-red in the centre. It is also very hard and brittle which suggests that the object has been heated at a very high temperature, either over or in a fire. The material has few if any inclusions. The fragment is 71.8mm x 41.1mm in size, is 21.0mm thick and weighs 86.41g. The internal face of the fragment is coated in slag. The fragment was taken to Jane Thompson-Webb (Collection Care Officer Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery) who suggested that the slag was most probably iron ore but that traces of copper were also evident underneath. One possibility is that the crucible was used for copper at some point, and then used at a later date for iron. The external face of the fragment is covered by streaks of a dark grey material. The material is probably molten iron, a by product of the smelting process. | 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: | 1400
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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