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Description: | Ceramic and lead object of unknown function. The main body of the object is formed from a hollow ceramic bell shape with a flattened top. The object is damaged and a significant portion of one side and the underneath is missing, as is a significant portion of the upper rim. The hollow core of the ceramic is filled with lead, which has a small circular depression at its centre. The fabric of the ceramic is creamy white in colour with the remains of a dark brown glaze or slip to the exterior. The lead is very light grey. The object has a diameter of 34.12mm at the bottom edge and 24.58mm at the top edge. It is 26.68mm high. The exposed portion of lead core has a diameter of 15.04mm. The object weighs 46.49g.
It has been suggested that the object could possibly be a medieval ceramic candlestick base and that the lead core may have held an iron spike for mounting a candle. It may be that both the upper rim and lead core are truncated and that the depression may be the bottom of a piercing that held an iron spike. However it is impossible to determine how complete or incomplete the object is, so this theory is offered with caution. | 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: | 1200
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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