CANDLE SNUFFER

Unique ID: HAMP434

Object type certainty: Certain

Fragment, candle-snuffer and handle. Ornate baluster-moulded shaft, terminating in rectangular plate. The plate is decorated with a cast lion's head motif in high relief, with stamped trefoil plant motifs in each corner, and 'rocker-arm' border. Filing marks on reverse surfaces, and five elliptical stamps on reverse, perhaps as a trial for upper surface decoration.

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Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: Circa AD 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1600

Dimensions and weight

Length: 90 mm
Width: 24 mm
Quantity: 1

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Cast [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Decoration method: Stamped [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Fragment [scope notes | view all attributed records]

Spatial data

Region: South East And London
County: Hampshire
District: Winchester
To be known as: HAMPSHIRE COMPTON AND SHAWFORD

Method of discovery: Metal detector [scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land [scope notes]
Specific landuse: Operations to a depth less than 0.25 m [scope notes]

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Monday 22nd September 1997

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    Created: Monday 6th November 2000
    Updated: Thursday 24th February 2011

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