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Description: | A complete cast lead vessel which has been squashed almost flat. It would have originally been semi-circular cross-section. The vessel flares out at its sides; some splits also appear here. At the base the vessel measures 39.9mm across, expanding to 66.4mm at the (squashed) top. It weighs 58.2g. The majority of the surface of the vessel is covered with off-white corrosion product; it is otherwise grey.Robert Webley comments on one such vessel HAMP-DBBD72; 'Many such vessels have been recorded on this database; the traditional identification is a Late Medieval or Early Post-Medieval bird feeder or 'bird seed container', although other suggestions for use have been made (see Notes, below). The following references in the literature can be consulted for comparison: Read (1995, 127-128; fig. 811), Egan (2005, 129; ref. 617)'.
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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