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Description: | Complete cast copper alloy drop handle. The handle is cast with a hexagonal section. When viewed in plan it is essentially rectangular, but with the upper long side having the corners inverted, so that the frame extends into a short ?neck? section. The frame has been finished with a file and the marks are clearly visible. The front face of the handle is decorated with a running series of incised stars, the reverse is plain. The handle is suspended from a moulded knob. The knob has a short flared neck, from which (at the narrow end) extends the drop shaped main body. The knob is bevelled, giving it a hexagonal section. To the top of the neck of the knob is an integral circular sectioned shaft, no longer than 3.02mm, where the knob, and thus handle, would have been attached to another object. The knob is pierced with a circular hole, through which the handle is suspended. The knob is heavily filed. The original surface of the handle and knob survives with a dark green patina. The handle is 81.86mm wide and 51.4mm long. The frame is 6.46mm wide and 5.56mm thick. The knob is 28.64mm long, 18.58mm wide and 11.14mm thick. The entire object weighs 79.78g.
This handle may have been attached to a post medieval chafing dish, a vessel filled with charcoal on which other vessels could be placed to keep food warm. However these handles are usually heart shaped. Margeson (1993, Norwich Households, page 78) explains that many drop handles, including those similar to chafing dish handles, are in fact simply from cupboard doors. Given the robust nature of the handle recorded here this is a likely explanation for this object. | 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: | 1500
1800 | 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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