Record ID: PUBLIC-A9E840
Object type: CANDLE SNUFFER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy strip with five in-line ring-and-dot motifs from a post-medieval wick trimmer. The broadly rectangular strip has broken at two points, each of which appear to be rivet holes; the short edges are both slightly angled at these points. The front, in addition to the ring-and-dot decoration, is bevelled along one of its long edges. The reverse is plain with evidence of solder along one of the long edges, between the rivet holes, one shorter edge perpendicular to the end of the traces along the long edge, at possibly also along the other shorter edge in a similar…
Created on: Monday 24th May 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 10th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Milton Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.