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Description: | Copper-alloy side-plate from a candle-snuffer, used to trim candle wicks. The object is flat and rectangular, decorated on one face with two rectangular panels defined by linear grooves. Within each panel are two ring-and-dot motifs. At one end is an incomplete triangular terminal decorated with two deep circular depressions. The other end is also broken at a narrowed terminal. On the reverse are scars where the other sides of the candle-snuffer has broken away. All breaks are worn. Compare a more complete example at HAMP-917D56, and similar detached sides at SOM-409575 and IOW-D85E28, etc. These have all been dated to the late 17th and 18th centuries.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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