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Description: | A sheet copper-alloy handle from a large vessel of probable Medieval date. It is trapezoidal, flaring towards the upper edge, and formed from a single sheet of copper-alloy that is folded longitudinally to create a front and back plate of equal size. At the centre of the upper edge is an oval aperture that would have enable suspension of the vessel by means of a chain or similar. At the attachment end are two sheet copper-alloy rivets with flattened heads that pierce both front and back plates and hold in place a fragment from the rim of the vessel. The rim itself creates a transverse ridge on one side (exterior?) of the handle. The entire object has a worn green patina with blackened surfaces indicative of possible exposure to high temperatures. It measures 45.08mm in length, 42.48mm in width, 6.10mm in thickness and 28.93g in weight.This is a sheet copper-alloy handle from a vessel of probable Medieval date. It finds a near identical parallel in a complete vessel with suspension loops/handles and chain from London (Egan, 1998: fig. 146) and is likely to date to the later Medieval period, c.14th-15th centuries AD, if not slightly later. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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