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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 has a broken loop at its incomplete terminal. The third arm is incomplete. A central shaft or stem, also of rectangular section and 4.76mm in width, terminates with an upper circular loop 9.75mm in diameter. The shaft 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 31.23mm in overal length with the complete arm being 18.26mm in length from the central stem. The other two are 12.9mm and 10mm in length, respectively. There are traces of sooting on the arms. The lamp hanger weighs 8.47g. 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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