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Description: | A Post-Medieval copper alloy handle from a cooking vessel such as a posnet or skillet. The handle is 'D' shaped in cross section, with a flat upper surface and a convex, rounded reverse. The upper surface is decorated with a moulded chevron design surrounded by a raised border along both edges. Towards the centre of this pattern a slight groove runs across the width of the object, interrupting the design and correlating with a bulge in the metal at the same point on the reverse. When viewed from the side the handle also changes angle very slightly at this point. The handle widens very slightly towards the break at one end, whilst the terminal end of the handle tapers fairly abruptly to a rounded and misshapen point. The surface within the break is rough, with a semi-circular indentation towards one side.Christopher Green (pers. comm.) comments:'These geometrical patterns seem to be characteristic of late medieval or early post-medieval vessels. They are difficult to date reliably, but the handle form with a slight step at the distal end is reminiscent of handles on early skillets, e.g. Handbook 146 (Butler & Green 2003, p.140), with a 'swelling' on the underside of the handle; or the posnet attributed in the Handbook (ibid, p.38, no.4) to the Birdall foundry. Both these vessels could be of 16th century date. We have tended to think that these posnet/skillet handles with slight shaping at the distal end are transitional between the much more vigorously shaped handles seen on undoubted medieval vessels and the completely plain forms characteristic by the late 17th century and throughout the 18th and into the 19th centuries. Difficult to tell whether there was originally some sort of terminal, but I think probably not.'The object is broadly similar to another handle from Somerset recorded on the Portable Antquities Scheme database - SOMDOR-669906. However, this example has obvious zoomorphic moulding at the terminal end, which, as Green points out, this example lacks.Length: 134mm Width: 25.07 mm to 22.09 mm, Thickness: 11.63mm to 7.3 mm, Weight: 149g
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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