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Description: | A copper alloy solid probable handle from a strainer, vessel or other utensil, of probable Medieval to Post Medieval date. The object consists of a curved piece of sheet copper alloy, though to be a projection from a vessel or utensil bowl, which is riveted to a solid copper alloy handle.The surviving part of the vessel or utensil is not part of the rim, but is a trapezoid piece of sheet metal, 1.5mm - 2mm thick, with concave short sides, a convex longest side and one straight edge. The longest side is a break, but the other edges appears to be original. The stright edge would have been the furthest from the vessel and interacts with the handle. The sheet is curved in profile, and appears to have been a flaring projection from a sheet copper alloy vessel, spoon, strainer, skimmer or other similar implement. The other element is a solid cast fitting. Attached to the underside of the sheet element is a pear-shaped plate, 3.2mm thick and 33.5mm wide. It tapers in width and curves downwards, thickening, to a circular sectioned rod which would have formed the handle or similar attachment. The rod is only 43.9mm long from the base of the pear-shaped plate to the break truncating the rod or handle. At the break, it is 8.5mm diameter. As well as curving down into the base plate, the rob divides and forms a small top plate with a notch to accommodate the sheet element between the two attachment plates. The top plate is only 24mm long from the handle truncation to the original, champfered terminal. The top plate flares from the handle to 20.5mm wide.The two elements, the sheet and the solid one, are attached to each other by two copper alloy rivets with large domed heads at both ends. These are positioned near the long, broken edge of the sheet, 3.3mm from the edges of the pear-shaped lower plate. The object is 43.6mm long, 56.9mm wide and 15mm thick. 52.64g. It has grey green patina with patches of grey surface showing. There is also some sooting.No close parallels have yet been identified. Previously recorded strainer / skimmer handles are sheet sockets for a wooden handle, including those in The Medieval Household (Egan 1998). See SF-732B7E for an example. It could be from a different cooking utensil, or a vessel, or tankard. Perhaps, inverted, it would work as a strap handle on a convex lid. Compare also NMGW-10AB77.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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