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VESSEL
Unique ID: KENT-ACB08C
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment cast copper-alloy chafing dish handle, c.15th-16th century in date.
Description: The fragment represents the upper corner of an inverted openwork T-shape as KENT-7B6924, likely the attachment end. The fragment has filed chamfered edges.
Measurements: 35.36mm long, 26.9mm high, 6.69mm thick at thickest and 25.09g in weight.
Discussion: For similar examples see Egan (1998) 175, fig.143, no.487, and Margeson (1993) Norwich Households 78-80, fig.45, nos.489-91. These objects are frequently recorded on the PAS database e.g. NMS-91CC97 and KENT-7B6924 (the latter being complete). It is possible that some examples were attached to objects other than chafing dishes but if they are found on their own chafing dish is the most likely suggestion.
Class: chafing dish
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 35.36 mm
Height: 26.9 mm
Thickness: 6.69 mm
Weight: 25.09 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Thanet (District)
Parish or ward: Monkton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TR2864
Four figure Latitude: 51.32936504
Four figure longitude: 1.27140035
1:25K map: TR2864
1:10K map: TR26SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egan, G. | 1998 | The Medieval Household: Daily Living c.1150-c.1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London) | London | The Stationery Office |
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