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Description: | A sheet metal handle socket from a skimmer with part of the skimmer bowl, used for skimming fat and removing items from cauldrons, attached. The socket is constructed from a U shaped piece of sheet metal which has been riveted to the skimmer plate. The sheet is raised in the centre forming a tapering convex semi-circular section, now squashed, to accomodate a pointed wooden handle. This raised section is flanked by a row of four rolled sheet rivets on each side, one rivet is now missing leaving a circular hole. The remaining fragment of the skimmer plate is crumpled but appears to have been circular with the sheet doubled over at the edge. It has regularly spaced circular holes for draining. It is 90.9mm long, 76.8mm wide and 14.3mm thick.Similar items are recorded in Margeson (1993: 118 - 119), fig. 84, numbers 744 and 745 which are dated to the 16th to 17th century and in Egan (1998:157) fig 126 where it is suggested the use of rolled sheet rivets suggest as date after c.1450 AD.
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