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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy barrel tap with an unremovable key with a bifurcate handle, that is lozenge-shaped in section, and has an arched bifid terminal with an everted lip on each branch. The key barrel is circular in section and, half way down the barrel, the spout projects out at right angles to the barrel. The spout is hexagonal in section and semi-circular in profile, curving downwards. On the opposite side of the barrel from the spout, there is a circular aperture which exposes the cylindrical key within, which would have originally turned to allow the liquid to flow through an opening to the spout. The circular hole would have originally attached to the spigot, now missing, which would have been inserted into the barrel. The handle is 33 mm wide and 20 mm long; the key shaft is 14 mm long and 13 mm in diameter; the key barrel is 27 mm long and 15 mm in diameter; the spout is 25 mm long and 11 mm in diameter; and the whole tap weighs 60.7g.Read (1988) illustrates a simpler bifid terminal from a barrel tap handle on page 158, No.1066, which is dated from the 17th century.Bailey (1993) illustrates a barrel tap with a similar bifid terminal on the handle on page 63, No.19, which is dated from the 18th to the mid 19th century.
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