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Description: | Fragment of a Post Medieval copper-alloy spout from a tap that has a curved pentagonal spout, 17.7mm in diameter, attached to an integral, slightly thinner, straight cylindrical terminal, 15.1mm in diameter. A prominent hexagonal stop-ridge, 21.0mm thick, separates the two around the upper half of the diameter. The ridge starts with a less prominent part on the side of the curved spout before stepping up to a wider ridge before thinning abruptly to the terminal. The fragment is 47.7mm long, 30.2mm wide, 21.4mm thick and weighs 46.48 grams.The spout is part of a barrel or cistern tap with a key and is broken near where it would have meet the key housing. See GLO-40627B and SUR-9568F7 on this database for similar examples. This example dates to the 17th - early 18th century. Margeson (1993:138) notes "taps with bifurcated keys are seen as an intermediate stage between Medieval tap keys in the form of a cockerel, fleur-de-lis or openwork trefoil, and the flat-topped T-shaped keys of the 18th century"
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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