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VESSEL
Unique ID: PUBLIC-EB8250
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment from the rim of a post medieval, cast copper alloy, chaffing dish.The fragment consists of a dish support with length of rim to one side. The fragment is smooth, with a green patina developing over the grey metal.
The remaining section of rim represents 6% of the original, giving a vessel opening of approximately 17cm diameter. The vessel body turns outwards near to the rim creating a flared opening.The vessel has a smooth surface and has been turned. The vessel body is decorated withincised girth lines. On the outer surface there are two girth lines, one about 12mm below the rim, just below below the base of the support, and the other about 10mm lower. On the inner surface there is a single girth line 3mm below the rim, and another 13mm down is a small 1mm wide girth bead, with an incised girth line above and another below.
The support extends 15cm in length from the the rim and is a trapesium in cross-section.The support tapers inward from the rim towards its rounded top, being 12.6mm wide by 7.4mm deep at the rim, and 8.2 mm by 4.7mm deep just below the rounded terminal. The shape of the support is that of a type B chafing dish, dating from c1450-c1550.
The vessel wall is 1.9mm thick. The fragment measures 50mm wide by 50mm high and weighs 27.8g.
Similar fragments recorded on PAS include ESS-001E7C, BUC-F1564C and WAW-D357DD.
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 1450
Date to: Circa AD 1550
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 50 mm
Width: 50 mm
Thickness: 1.9 mm
Weight: 27.8 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
District: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Brampton Abbotts
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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