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Description: | Cast copper alloy vessel with two looped handles on either side of the neck of the container. The vessel is globular in shape with a rounded base and a defined narrower neck. The vessel could not have stood on a flat surface so would have been suspended so as not to lose its contents. One handle is more worn than the other, suggesting that the vessel was probably suspended from this side. These vessels were used to contain holy oil (Geoff Egan pers comm).There are several of these copper-alloy vessels from across England on the PAS database now, the most significant one, in that it says what they were for, is in the PAS Annual Report 2003/4 pages 42 & 62, No. 98 (SUR-FA2AB0). This vessel was found in East Clandon in Surrey and bears a crudely carved inscription OLEVM CHRISM or 'chrism' oil from 'chrisma' or balm, which was used for confirmation, ordination and certain consecrations. The vessel probably belonged to a travelling 'chrismatory', a set containing three holy oils in the Medieval church: oleum chrism, oleum infirmorum for the sick, and oleum catechumenorum for baptism. The style of the lettering on this vessel suggests that it is 12th century in date. These vessels have also turned up on monastic sites, but whether this one can be associated with any specific cult is doubtful (Geoff Egan pers comm).However, the vessel was found close to the burial ground associated with St Goran church which is on the route that Bishop Walter Bronescombe is recorded as taking on his visit on 5th October, 1259, when he stayed at the nearby Medieval manor of Bodrugan. He was Bishop of Exeter from 1258-1280, founded Glasney College in 1265 and in 1269 was granted advowson (the right in English ecclesiastical law of presentation to a vacant benefice) of St Goran by Philip de Bodrugan which was then propriated to Glasney College.
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