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Description: | Fragment of a cast copper alloy skillet handle. The fragment tapers in width and thickness along its length and is sub rectangular in plan, and D shaped in cross section with a flat top and a convex back. The front has moulded geometric decoration of raised lines between recessed areas forming panels. The complete panel featrues a voided St George cross over a voided saltire cross within a border. The partial panel appears to feature a voided saltire cross, now only visible as a chevron. No decoration is present on the underside of the handle. It measures 56.3mm in length, 29.5mm wide towards the vessel and 26.3mm wide towards the tip and 9.6mm thick. It weighs 81.51 grams.Butler & Green (2003) illustrate several examples with similar quatrefoils or saltires at one end of a motto (e.g. p.50, no.11, p.145, no.151) and suggest a similar quatrefoil was scratched onto vessels as a makers mark by the Sturton foundry (pp98). However with a similar piece on this database; SOM-A7F4F0, they comment (pers com): "We are agreed that this is a pattern we have not seen before and we shall add it to our lengthening list of 'new' types. The style of the pattern suggests a vessel most likely of 16th century date, but difficult to know whether from a posnet or a skillet, and difficult to say anything more about it." Several similar handles have been recorded on the PAS database including: CORN-D7FE61, YORYM-0D2A64 and LVPL-2AEF67 with similar designed panels.
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