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Description: | A copper-alloy lamp suspender of Late Medieval date.The centre of the artefact is triangular, each point extending into a horizontal arm. Only one of these arms survives intact. It is of rectangular section, the thickness tapering towards a distal perforated lobe. Approximately half of each of the two other arms survive, the breaks having occurred in antiquity. A loop projects upwards at 90 degrees from the triangular central area. Beneath this is a rounded moulding of uncertain function. The corroded surfaces of the artefact bear traces of an unidentified black coating. The piece measures 35.2mm long, 23.9mm wide and 12.3mm high. The weight is 9.01g.Lamp suspenders were found in excavations in London (see Egan 1998: 130-131), where the stratigraphic evidence pointed towards a late 14th to early 15th century date.
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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