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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy candle holder, which has been broken and bent inwards on one side, but would have originally been hexagonal in plan with a flaring cup and an opposed-angled base collar above a voided ring mount which would have attached to the base of the candle holder with its integral rivet. There are two moulded ribs around the hexagonal opening and one rib at the base. Just below the upper raised rib on opposite sides of the holder are the edges of the circular holes, 5 mm in diameter, above the rectangular slots that are 18 mm in length. These slots were presumably used to allow for a lever to push the candle upwards as it was used and shortened. The height from the upper edge of the cup to the rivet is 61 mm and the diameter of the cup tapers from 16 mm at the top to 14 mm at the base and is 3 mm thick. The ring mount is 20 mm in diameter, 5 mm wide and 3 mm thick.Egan (2005) illustrates a very similar candle holder on page 80, fig.68, no.335, and a drawing of how the whole candle holder would have looked in no.335a, which was wrongly dated from the 17th century but is now thought to be 16th century in date, and which he states represents the highest quality of mass-produced candle holders at the time.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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