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Medieval copper-alloy vessel
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Richard Henry, 2012-01-25 13:07:05
Title
Medieval copper-alloy vessel
Description
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Complete cast copper alloy vessel of Medieval date. The vessel is shaped like an ampulla, with a bulbous rounded body, narrow neck and open semi-circular side handles, but unlike the typical pilgrim souvenirs it is not made of lead alloy. The vessel has a circular perforation at its base. The vessel has a deep greenish-brown patina with some suface pitting.

It is possible that the vessel was used as a holy oil flask possibly from a travelling chrismatory, or set of three holy oils used in the medieval church: oleum infirmorum for the sick; oleum catechumenorum for baptism; and chrisma or balm, used for confirmation, ordination and certain consecrations.

Please see <a href="http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/55566">SUR-FA2AB0</a> for a comparable find.

This object has been tentatively dated c.1100-1400.

The vessel is 53.25mm in height, 35.3mm in diameter and weighs 56.4 grams.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Warwickshire
Date between 1100 and 1300
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1100-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1300-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 484038
Old ref: WAW-FFC367
Filename: WAW-FFC367.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/366375
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/366375/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/484038
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 25 November 2020)
Object location52° 20′ 03.48″ N, 1° 38′ 58.45″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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