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Unique ID: GLO-A6948A
Object type certainty: Certain
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Lead alloy vessel. This is D-shaped in plan (flat on the reverse, rounded front), but is now slightly distorted. The sides taper towards the flat base, the top edge is stepped out to form a projecting square angled rim that runs around the curved edge of the vessel.
Egan 2005 ("Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition", Museum of London) p128-9 for similar items identified as bird feeders from excavated examples and contemporary illustrations. Egan states that these were used for holding water, green plants or seed for caged birds, and that "decorated troughs seem to date from the late 15th/16th centuries and later, while plainer versions continue at least until the late 17th century". Similar items but usually decorated with a cross may have been used as small holy water stoops.
Date 1400-1700
Weight exceeds scales >60g
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Quantity: 1
Length: 68 mm
Height: 39 mm
Width: 9 mm
Thickness: 1.8 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st May 2020 - Sunday 2nd August 2020
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Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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