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Description: | A fragment of a lead lattice grille which is in the form of a sub-square with a lozenge within, the fields are all openwork. This pattern appears to be repeated on the right-side, but only a fragment of the panel remains. There is another fragment of a panel on the left-side which appears to have been soldered together on the reverse. The strands of the lattice are all triangular in section. The surface has a mottled mid grey to light grey coloured surface. It measures 46.63mm wide, 46.37mm long, 3.85mm thick and weighs 18.8g.The grille or ventilation panel probably dates to the Medieval period. Cherry (Cherry, J. 1985 'Some Ecclesiastical and Monastic Finds' Finds Research Group 700-1700 Datasheet 2) comments that these panels with openwork tracery panels are found on monastic sites, royal and archiepiscopal palaces dating to the 13th to 15th centuries, and in Essex and Surry continued in use on farmhouses until the 17th century. Egan ('Lead/Tin Alloy Metalwork' in Saunders, P. 2001 Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Medieval Catalogue, Part 3 Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Salisbury) illustrates a similar grille to the recorded example, No. 189 and comments they went out of use by the mid 16th century.
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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