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Description: | A squashed copper-alloy sheet metal handle socket probably from a skimmer of medieval or post-medieval date. The socket is constructed from two pieces of sheet metal which have been riveted together with rolled sheet metal rivets. The upper part has a tapering convex central curve, now squashed, to accommodate a pointed wooden handle. There is a single rivet hole in the wider end of the cone. The sides of this piece are then bent out at right angles and riveted to the lower piece of flat sheet metal. This latter is trapezoidal in form and, being 78.8mm, stops short of the narrowed end of the upper sheet, presumably to allow for the separate skimmer plate. Four pairs of rivets would have connected the two sheets; the pair nearest the skimmer plate have been lost. There is a further pair at the narrowed end of the upper sheet; beyond the sheet has been curled round under itself.Similar items can be found illustrated in Margeson (1993, 118-119; refs. 744, 745), dated to the 16th to 17th century, and Egan (1998, 156-157; ref. 438) where it is suggested the use of rolled sheet rivets suggest a date after c. 1450 AD. A number of similar objects have been recorded on this database, refs.: SOM-4A9FE4, WILT-98A173, DOR-387F03, SUSS-0A29C3. The object has been subject to considerable squashing, to the socket and also to the flanges where the rivets are located. As well as rivet holes abrading through there is some abrading and tearing at the wider, handle end. The metal generally has a mid/dark-green patina with some patches of lighter corrosion product.
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