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Description: | A copper alloy late Medieval to early Post-Medieval barrel tap. It is complete except for the key, the top of which is missing due to old breaks. The tap has a downturned spout which is rectangular in section and the sides of which show copious tool-marking. This is attached to a polygonal spiggot 30.8mm in length, which has a flat base, and is sealed by a fixed key, circular in section with a drum-shaped base that fits into the spiggot. The upper part of the key is flat, 3.3mm in thickness, and tapers to its incomplete terminal. Examples shown by Read indicate that the key terminal could have had an openwork trefoil or zoomorphic shape. (Read 1995, no.605) The barrel tap measures 59.94mm in surviving width across the spiggot and tap, and is 20.34mm in thickness. The spout is 58.49mm in length, and varies in width between 11-17mm, and is 18.37 x 13.3mm across the open spout. It weighs 100.78g. This example is closely paralleled with that shown by Read, but with an additional spike on the platform between the spiggot and the spout. This spike has a long narrow triangular shape, 9.2mm at the base, 27.57mm in length, and 3.75mm thick. Its function is unclear, but may have allowed the key to be locked.
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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