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Description: | Fragment of a cast copper alloy skillet handle. The fragment tapers in width and thickness along its length and is trapezoid in plan with a wider upper surface, bevelled sides and flat back. The front has moulded geometric decoration of raised lines between recessed areas forming a row of squares containing four pointed ovals arranged in a saltire, like a quatrefoil; one complete square and sections of two others survive. Between two of the squares is a raised band with diagonal incisions making a rope effect and between the other two may be a row of pellets although this is unclear. Between the squares and the edge is a groove then a raised line edge. The back and sides are plain apart from file marks. It is 36.5mm long, 26.8mm wide and 7.5mm thick; it weighs 34.73 grams.Butler & Green (2003) illustrate several examples with similar quatrefoils or saltires at one end of a motto (e.g. p.50, no.11, p.145, no.151) and suggest a similar quatrefoil was scratched onto vessels as a makers mark by the Sturton foundry (pp98). However with this piece they comment (pers com): "We are agreed that this is a pattern we have not seen before and we shall add it to our lengthening list of 'new' types. The style of the pattern suggests a vessel most likely of 16th century date, but difficult to know whether from a posnet or a skillet, and difficult to say anything more about it."
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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