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Description: | A cast copper alloy Medieval lamp hangar. It has one complete rectangular arm, and two more which have been broken in antiquity. The complete arm terminates with a perforated loop, and a second arm also has a loop preceeding its incomplete terminal. A central shaft or stem, also of rectangular section and 4.71mm in width, terminates with an upper circular loop 11.19mm in diameter, and projects below the arms with a semi-circular lug, also perforated. The lamp hanger would have been used with chains, to be suspended, and to have hanging lamps supsended from it. It measures 34.45mm in overal length with the complete arm being 20.95mm in length from the central stem. The other two are 17.48mm and 12mm in length, respectively. there are traces of sooting on the arms. The lamp hanger weighs 10.63g. A similar example coming from a fourteenth century context from medieval London, is illustrated in Egan, The Medieval Household, no.357.
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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