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Early post-medieval miniature hammer | |||
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Suffolk County Council, Helen Geake, 2014-06-17 16:59:58 |
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Title |
Early post-medieval miniature hammer |
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Description |
English: Tiny miniature ?hammer made from copper alloy. It has a broken-off oval-section shaft (fresh break) passing through a central squarish boss decorated with two vertical lines on either side. Around the shaft, below the boss, is a collar; above is a tapering, slightly curved spike whose cross-section has been filed into a rough hexagon. This may be a continuation of the shaft. To one side of the boss is a flaring cone with circular section and 6.5 mm flat end, probably intended as a hammer-head. It is decorated with two circumferential grooves. To the other side of the boss is a rectangular-section projection with bevelled edges nearest to the boss, then a narrow projecting lobe, then a wider (almost lozengiform) projecting lobe, then the arm ends in a D-shaped lobe. This all combines to represent an ornate axe with a curved blade. The entire object measures only 31 mm from hammer-head to axe blade. A similar small copper-alloy hammer is known from Great Glemham (sf738/6488). It is just possible that they are smokers' tools; a rather larger hammer-like smoker's tool was found in an early 17th-century context in Amsterdam (Baart no. 686) and this also has spikes and claws for cleaning out the pipe. The hammer-head was presumably used as a tamper. A rather larger example from Norfolk, however, was identified by the British Museum as a metalworking hammer of the 15th or 16th century. The oblique filemarks covering much of the surface of the Orford hammer are characteristic of the medieval and early post-medieval period. |
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Depicted place | (County of findspot) Suffolk | ||
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between 1400 and 1700 date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1400-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1700-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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FindID: 20390 Old ref: SF5674 Filename: ORFsf706sf5674.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/473131 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/473131/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/20390 |
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current | 15:20, 21 January 2017 | 495 × 454 (44 KB) | Fæ (talk | contribs) | Portable Antiquities Scheme, NFAHG, FindID: 20390, post medieval, page 1326, batch count 109 |
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Horizontal resolution | 360 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 360 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows |
File change date and time | 16:59, 17 June 2014 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
Image width | 495 px |
Image height | 454 px |
Date and time of digitizing | 10:04, 12 November 2012 |
Date metadata was last modified | 17:59, 17 June 2014 |
Copyright status | Copyright status not set |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:49B6F54D38F6E311BF34EC206057B1AE |
IIM version | 114 |