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CUTLERY
Unique ID: NMS-3CC2CB
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete post medieval copper alloy pastry jigger. The extant working end consists of a 'T'-shaped head that would have been used for cutting and impressing the pastry. The underside of the bar is scalloped either side of a central stem. The tool end has deep oblique grooves made alternately from either face creating a zig-zag profile when viewed end-on. Beyond the head the section narrows and changes to an oval shaped stem which further extends into a bulbous sub-rectangular broken knob. A common feature of these pastry jiggers is that they are double-ended and the broken end of this example appears to have a smooth centre at the break, suggesting this may have been the start of the slotted housing for a rotary wheel jigger tool. This would make the jigger unusually short, so it may simply be the swollen centre of a conventional length double ended jigger. Jiggers with similar scalloped ends are illustrated in Finlay, M. Pastry Jiggers and Pastry Prints (2014) p18 and are assigned to the late 17th Century.
Class: Food Preparation Equipment
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1750
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 60 mm
Width: 40 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 10th April 2016 - Sunday 10th April 2016
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 57892
Other reference: GC
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: South Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Barnham Broom (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TG0807
Four figure Latitude: 52.62090429
Four figure longitude: 1.07138893
1:25K map: TG0807
1:10K map: TG00NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finlay, M. | 2014 | Pastry Jiggers and Pastry Prints | Cumbria | Plains Books | p18 | 55 a-d |
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