Rights Holder: Hampshire Cultural Trust
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Unique ID: HAMP-629FA5
Object type certainty: Probably
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status: Awaiting validation
A fragment of medieval lead alloy tracery, probably from a window grille or ventilator, dating to c.1200-1500.
It is a triangular piece with old breaks and an L-shaped back 5.5mm thick. A diagonal rib at roughly two thirds of the distance from the corner along each line creates a 'filled-in' area c.1.5mm thick, with additions to both side of apparently sheet lead, up to the height of the L-shaped arm. This part of the object therefore has a T-shaped cross-section (without the additional sheeting).
Extending at a right angle to the longer arm, just above the diagonal rib, is an arm rectangular in cross-section (1.6mm thick and 5.2 wide). Above this arm, mirroring the diagonal rib and extending from the long arm of the 'L' , is a diagonal arm, triangular in cross-section being flat to one side. At 90 degrees to the end of this is an extension of this arm.
Along the shorter arm of the 'L' shape, just beyond the diagonal rib, is a bent arm extending from the L but at right angles to the diagonal rib, triangular in cross-section. These four diagonal arms would have originally created an openwork lozenge shape, with the horizontal arm extending through the centre of it.
It has a variable white/grey colour.
The piece measures in 33.8 mm length, 25.0 mm width, is 5.02 mm thick and weighs 16.14 gr. It was found very close to HAMP-623B14.
The fragment probably dates to the Medieval period. Cherry (Cherry, J. 1985 'Some Ecclesiastical and Monastic Finds' Finds Research Group 700-1700 Datasheet 2) comments that these panels with openwork tracery panels are found on monastic sites, royal and archiepiscopal palaces dating to the 13th to 15th centuries.
Cf. NMS-0ADD10 and LIN-E73680 on the database.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Quantity: 1
Length: 33.8 mm
Width: 25 mm
Thickness: 5.02 mm
Weight: 16.14 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 10th October 2016 - Monday 10th October 2016
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Other reference: Hampshire Cultural Trust Object Entry Form WINCM 448
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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