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Description: | A copper-alloy pipe tamper of post-Medieval to modern date.The tamper takes the form of a solid-cast three dimensional representation of male knight. The standing figure faces forward, the head tilted to his left, the legs slightly bent, the straight arms held outwards from the body. He wears armour typical of the Late Medieval to early post-Medieval periods: a crested helmet, breastplate, pauldrons and tassets; a waist band is also visible on the back. In his right hand he holds what is probably the hilt of a broken sword; in his left, a shield resembling an openwork flower head. The face is very worn, as is the front of the torso. The feet are missing.Dimensions: 42mm high, 35.6mm wide, 6.1mm thick. Weight: 11.29g.Although no exact parallel could be found for this piece, several other pipe tampers in the form of armoured figures are recorded on the PAS database, perhaps the best example being HAMP-7F7E70, which is a depiction of St. George spearing the dragon. The suggested date for this example is 17th to 19th century.
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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