dish
- Museum number
- 1897,1218.28
- Description
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A pewter dish on a low footring with straight-sides rising to an everted rim. On the underside within the footring is evidence for lathe mounting scars and a deeply incised chi-rho symbol. The vessel is complete except for a small portion of the rim that has broken away.
- Production date
- 4thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 45 millimetres (footring)
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Diameter: 109 millimetres (rim)
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Height: 23.10 millimetres
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Weight: 144 grammes
- Curator's comments
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Pewter dish
Appleshaw, Hampshire
4th century AD
This dish is part of a hoard of 32 pewter vessels found buried in a building in 1897. On the underside within the foot-ring is a lightly incised chi-rho motif. This would suggest that the owner of this dish was a Christian.
P&E 1897 12-18 28
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Similar pewter forms from Appleford (Brown 1973, Fig 1, nos 8 & 9), Welney (Greep 1998) and Thatcham (Collingwood 1931, no 3). Two silver examples of deeper bowls but with similar straight-sides are noted from Xanten-Waardt, suggesting that this form may have been produced in metals from 250 A.D (S.Künzl 1997, 21, Fig 10). (Smith 2011, cat. 032).
- Location
- On display (G49/dc18)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2006 31 Mar-29 Oct, York, Yorkshire Museum, Constantine
- Condition
- Some corrosion has caused flaking particularly around the broken area of the rim.
- Acquisition notes
- One of four dishes from Appleshaw purchased a from the Rev'd. Engleheart in 1897.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1897,1218.28
