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Description: | The object is a crucible body 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 material is mid pinkish-red and very hard which suggests that the object has been heated at a very high temperature, either over or in a fire. The material has no visible inclusions. The fragment is 59.9mm x 46.2mm in size, is 16.9mm thick and weighs 57.65g. The external face is light yellow in colour while the internal face has a thin mid-grey metal residue, coating its surface. The fragment was taken to Jane Thompson-Webb (Collection Care Officer Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery) who suggested that the metal was white metal alloy most probably silver. No traces of white metal alloy are evident on the external face of the vessel. | 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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