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Description: | Copper alloyCandle Holder. Cast pentagonal cylinder tapering from its thickened ring towards a collared base. A slot of length 12mm and width 5mm in one of the five side panels and an aperture of diameter 4mm above it may be to permit a candle end to be lifted or removed with an inserted bar or nail. Candleholders using sockets are known from London from the 14th century onwards, including examples of angular forms, but lacking provision for removing or raising the candle. This piece may later, the rim and collar in particular suggesting the influence of Classical forms, and this object possibly having attached to the top of a longer shaft. An example with a basal ring from London is dated to the later 15th to early 16th century (G. Egan 2005, Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition, MOLAS Monograph 19, Museum of London Archaeology Service, London, page 80, fig. 68 no. 335). Suggested date: Late Medieval to Post-Medieval, 1450-1550. Height: 34.6mm, Width/Diameter: 23mm, Thickness (wall): 0.8mm, Weight: 13.56gms.
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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