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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy vessel with small lug handles springing from just below and reaching slightly above the simple rim, one of which is pierced. There is a pronounced casting seam down the sides and around the rounded base. Perhaps unfinished. Height 52mm. Rim diameter 17 ? 21mm. Maximum diameter 33mm.
There are at least eleven examples of these vessels, some inscribed with crosses, from Norfolk, from Bacton (HER 1073), Blo Norton (HER 21118), Great Dunham (45424), Hellington (HER 34929), Hockering (HER 36541), Long Stratton (HER 16111), Marsham (HER 39717), East Ruston (HER 16764), Norton Subcourse (HER 36159) and Whinburgh (2 vessels, HER 40298).
A similar example inscribed: OLEVM CHRISM (chrism oil) was found recently in East Clandon, Surrey. This Surrey example presumably came from a travelling chrismatory, or set of three holy oils used in the medieval church: oleum infirmorum for the sick; oleum catechumenorum for baptism; and chrisma or balm, used for confirmation, ordination and certain consecrations. Dated to before c.1200 (Geake in Med. Archaeol. 48 (2004), 244-5, fig. 4a). Three similar small copper-alloy two-handled vessels are recorded on the Portable Antiquities database, all from Suffolk: SF10638, SF8334 and SF4470. Others are known from London. Hitherto their function has been obscure. | 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: | 1066
1200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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