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Description: | A cast copper alloy chafing dish handle. The handle has a sub-trapezoid frame in plan, with the longer edge, opposite the attachment lug, shaped into a double curve with central indent like a heart. It is rectangular in section apart from the shorter edge with the attachment lug which is circular in section. The attachment lug fitting to the chaffing dish is still in place. This is a thick, flat lug, oval in plan with a square projection to one side from which projects the short, broad, circular rivet that went through the side of the vessel, the end of this rivet is missing.Chafing dishes were domestic utensils made of metal or earthenware for holding burning charcoal or other combustible material. This was then used to cook food or keep it hot at the table. This particular handle is from a type B1 chafing-dish. This type of dish dates to AD 1450 - 1550 (Lewis 1973)
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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