Record ID: PUBLIC-D77F20
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early post-medievall tin alloy (pewter) spoon, probably of 16th century date. The spoon is incomplete, missing part of the bowl and has a slightly distorted stem (with a length of 155.4mm and a weight of 33.9g). The terminal knop is of flattened spherical form with a protruding nipple. The knop is decorated with a whirligig device in cast relief. The rear of the knop may also have been decorated with a similar motif but is now worn. There is a rib moulding at the top of the stem, before the knop. The stem is of sub-hexagonal section (5mm wide and 4mm thick), becoming D-shaped near the…
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 30th April 2014
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Record ID: PUBLIC-0A9B73
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval tin-lead alloy pilgrim souvenir, probably of 14th to 15th century date The pilgrim souvenir is fragmentary, broken on all sides (with a surviving length of 23.5mm, a maximum surviving width of 17.4mm, a thickness of 1.2-1.7mm and a weight of 2.3g). The fragment depicts a female figure within a rectangular openwork frame. The figure's face is cast in relief and she is wearing a beaded headdress and is bearing her breasts. The figure is flanked on both sides with near vertical ribbing, possibly representing hair or part of the headdress. The rear has a vertical lug, now folde…
Created on: Tuesday 21st June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 23rd June 2011
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