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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy handle from a barrel tap, of Post Medieval dating (17th to 19th Centuries AD).The handle fragment is moulded with a horizontal crescent which are integral and overlapped, in plan. The terminal has an unturned knop, and the handle is a sub-lozenge shape in section. The handle has broken at the mid point.It measures 23.47 mm in length, 12.22 mm wide and 7.89 mm thick. It weighs 6.1 g.The barrel tap handle is a dark green colour, with an even surface patina.Several similar and more complete examples have been recorded on the PAS database including WAW-44DA74, CORN-68BC51 and LVPL-FCF2A6. Margeson (1993) illustrates an almost identical tap handle, No. 932, and dates this to the first half of the 17th century. 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, pp 63, no 19) illustrates a barrel tap with a similar bifid terminal on the handle which is dated from the 18th to the mid 19th century. Therefore it is reasonable to assume that this example is of 17th to 19th Centuries AD dating.Reference:Bailey, G. 1993. Detector Finds 2. Greenlight Publishing. Chelmsford.Margeson, S. 1993. Norwich Households; Medieval and Post Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-78. East Anglian Archaeology Report No. 58, Norwich).Read, B. 1988. History beneath our feet. Merlin Publishing. Braunton.
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