Record ID: SOM-5E8D89
Object type: RIVET
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper alloy pot mend, consisting of a staple rivet, probably dating to c. AD 1475-1600. The mend is of a lozenge shaped sheet of copper alloy folded in on itself, to create a sub-rectangular plate which would have had two sub-triangular prongs projecting from the reverse; both prongs are lost to a patinated break. Dimensions: length 38.3mm, width 20.8mm tapering to 15.4mm, thickness 1.8mm, 3.6mm along the site of the prong breaks; weight: 5.52g. Egan (2005: 101, nos. 460-463) notes that such pot repairs were in use from the Early Medieval period, but were at the…
Created on: Thursday 5th April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 18th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shepton Beauchamp CP', grid reference and parish protected.