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VESSEL

Unique ID: SF6292

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

Iron and copper alloy object, probably a copper-alloy mend from an iron vessel. The copper alloy forms a sheath, wrapping right around two faces of the rectangular-section iron fragment and coming a little way down a third (wide) face. At first sight it looks like a rim mend (cf. Egan 1998 fig. 135) but the wider faces are not curved along their length - instead, the complete shorter face is curved. It seems therefore more likely to be the flat handle of an iron skillet which has been largely encased (all apart from perhaps the bottom face) in copper alloy, and with one long side now broken away.

Class: skillet
Sub class: handle

Chronology

Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1250
Date to: AD 1600

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 86 mm
Width: 31 mm
Thickness: 14.5 mm
Weight: 134.91 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st January 2001

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Iron
Secondary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Fragment

Spatial metadata

Region: Eastern (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Mid Suffolk (District)
To be known as: SUFFOLK STUSTON

Spatial coordinates

Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Character undetermined

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Recording Institution: SF
Created: 22 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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