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Description: | An almost complete copper alloy toy of medieval to post-medieval date. The toy is in the form of three miniature cups or cauldrons joined together in a single piece by the body at the centre. Each vessel has a flared rim, waisted neck, and curved, bulbous body with a flat base and the stump of a single rounded leg protruding from the base. Two of the vessels have pointed, loop handles attached to the rim and shoulder while only the remains of the handle at its points of attachment survive on the third vessel. The interior of the vessels are hollow and the rims are heavily worn.The metal has a mid-green patina and is worn. The toy is 37.2mm long, 35.5mm wide, 14.9mm thick and weighs 35.5g.Similar examples have been recorded on the PAS database as SWYOR-E15D72, LVPL-5D8BF7, SWYOR-6C64B4 and LANCUM-855CB2.While life-sized ceramic triple cups are found in the Roman period they have no handles and are of a distinctly Roman form. The vessels in the current example are of a clear medieval form as seen in individual examples in Egan (2005) p.113 & 114. The reason for creating a triplicate example is unclear though they may have been intended to mimic 'fuddling' vessels. Fuddling cups are full size ceramic vessels which were produced as novelty or joke pieces which were formed from three or more small cups with interlinked handles and joined together through a small hole in the walls. The idea was to drink from one without spilling the contents of the others. Although cooking vessels (which these miniature cauldrons were copies of) have no 'fuddling' parallel, it seems that this miniature is some sort of novelty piece.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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