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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy object of uncertain date. The object comprises a hollow tapering cylindrical tube with expanded rim to one end and a worn break to the other. A drilled hole is present to the centre of one side and a large section of the opposite side has been lost to old worn breaks which extends to the broken. Prominent casting flashes or ridges are present at parallel points on either side of the tube and faint transverse ridges are also present along the remaining portion of the broken end. The interior of the tube is heavily abraded with a bubbled appearance to the surface. The metal has a dull greyish-brown patina and is worn. The object is 57.3mm long, 35.1mm in diameter, 9.4mm thick and weighs 109g.No convincing parallel for this object could be found at the time of recording. A suggestion from Dot Boughton, Finds Liaison Officer for Lancashire & Cumbria, is LANCUM-0AD956 which has been identified as "probably a large fragment of a miscast spearhead dating from the Middle or Later Bronze Age" though Ms Boughton also comments that the pewtery/leady appearance of the present example is not in keeping with Bronze Age material. Peter Reavill, Finds Liaison Officer for Herefordshire & Shropshire concurs that this object is not "overtly Bronze Age".The closest parallels found were medieval candle sticks such as KENT-4389B5, IOW-DD86B3, NLM-AF8214 and NLM-916115 though the forms are slightly different and the incomplete nature of this object makes a definite attribution difficult. These candle stick holders are published in Egan, G. 2005, Material culture in London in an age of transition: Tudor and Stuart finds c1450-c1700 from excavations at riverside sites in Southwark, MOLAS Monograph 19, Museum of London Archaeology Service and English Heritage, p.80, fig.68 no.335.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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