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Unique ID: CORN-3213A4
Object type certainty: Certain
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Cast copper alloy perforated lug attached to a rim fragment from a hanging skillet. The lug is D-shaped in plan and flat in profile, tapering away from the junction with the rim, from 5 mm to 3 mm in thickness. There is a smooth circular hole that is 8 mm in diameter drilled through the lug close to the rim which would have been used to suspend the skillet with a 'rod and swivel attachment' where the rod handle looped through the hole in the lug. There are many parallel turning marks running horizontally along the exterior of the lug. The lug is integral to the rim and the rim is flat and everted in order to take the base of the lug. The rim is sub-triangular in section with a faint line around the inner circumference below the rim, tapering from a thickness of 6 mm to a much thinner body of 2 mm. The lug has clearly broken off during use, but the metal is in a good state of preservation with a dark green patina.
Butler & Green (2003) illustrate a converted skillet with suspension loops on either side of the rim on page 50, no.10, which is dated from the 17th century, and a hanging skillet with flat lugs on page 68, no.45, which is attributed to Edmund Giles of Lewes, Sussex, and dated from c.1592-1614.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Quantity: 1
Height: 32 mm
Width: 39 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight: 23 g
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 11th October 2016 - Tuesday 11th October 2016
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
4 Figure: SW6830
Four figure Latitude: 50.12462537
Four figure longitude: -5.24714635
1:25K map: SW6830
1:10K map: SW60NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Butler, R. and Green, C. | 2003 | English Bronze Cooking Vessels and Their Founders 1350-1830 | Honiton, Devon | Roderick & Valentine Butler | 50 & 68 | nos.10 & 45 |