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Description: | A complete copper alloy Post Medieval chafing dish handle. The handle has a sub-trapezoidal frame, with the longer edge, opposite the attachment lug, shaped into a double arches with a central indent like a heart. The sides of the handles are bevelled creating facets and it has a cross-section shaped like an elongated hexagon. The attachment lug fitting to the chaffing dish is still in place. This is a thick oval lug, which tapers to a square, from which projects the short, circular rivet that attached to the side of the vessel. The entire object is covered with diagonal straight lines, possibly as a result of the surfaces being filed.The handle measures 56.2 mm long including the attachment lug, 57.3 mm wide and 4.1 mm thick; the lug is 23.4 mm long, 15.3 mm wide, 9.3 mm thick and the entire handle weighs 37.97 g.Chafing dishes were domestic utensils made of metal or earthenware for holding burning charcoal or other combustible material. This was then used to cook food or keep it hot at the table. This particular handle is from a type B1 chafing-dish. This type of dish dates to 1450 - 1550 AD (Lewis, J.M. 1973 'Some types of metal chafing-dish' Antiquaries Journal, Volume 53 pp. 60-70 Society of Antiquaries.)
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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