Record ID: FAKL-4E050A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Barnsley
Workflow stage: Published
Late or Post Medieval (c. 1400-1600) chafing dish handle, cast copper alloy, heart shaped, two lobed, with a flat, 6.8 x 4.6mm section with rounded edges, poorly made and asymmetric. Across the point of the heart is a bar around which has been cast a suspension mount, 23.0 x 14.5 x 8.4mm, one end D shaped the other bearing the remains of the expanded lug by which it and the handle were attached to the chafing dish. Length 62.2mm, Width 58.3mm, Mass 36.27g
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2017
Last updated: Saturday 22nd October 2022
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Record ID: FAKL-350E8B
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Barnsley
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval lead toy in the form of a globular vessel, its body tapering to a plain rim. On one side is the remains of a narrow, strip handle, now broken. In this area traces of raised decoration in the form of narrowly spaced, longitudinal raised lines and two rings around the body. The vessel is now crushed but appears to have had a round base. Original Diameter 28mm, Length 45.5mm, Wall thickness 2.2mm, Mass 77.25g. Medieval miniature jugs have been discussed by Forsyth and Egan (2005, 288-291) and dated by parallels made with full sized vessels. None of the examples shown by them …
Created on: Friday 28th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2017
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Record ID: FAKL-20594E
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Barnsley
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval, lead, Papal 'bulla' corroded but perhaps of Pope Gregory IX (VIIII), 19th March 1227 - 22nd August 1241. The bulla is oval, 40.9 x 39.5mm and 3.9mm thick. On the face are the faces of Saints Paul and Peter and the inscription 'SPA// SPE. On the reverse is the inscription GRE//GORIVS [pp vi] III?. Corrosion prevents a certain reading of the inscription. Mass 43.56g.
Created on: Thursday 27th April 2017
Last updated: Thursday 27th April 2017
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Record ID: FAKL-1FEE4E
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Barnsley
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval or post Medieval lead trade weight, shield shaped with a raised fleur-de-lys on one face, truncated across its broad end, which appears to have been done in antiquity. These weights are difficult to date and may have been in use from c. 1300-1800. Interestingly, while they are wide spread, findspots seem concentrated in Yorkshire. Length 40.8mm, Width 43.7mm, Thickness 8.6mm, Mass 103.68g
Created on: Thursday 27th April 2017
Last updated: Thursday 27th April 2017
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