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3018 Barrel tap and key
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3018 Barrel tap and key
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English: Cast copper alloy tap with a flat openwork trefoil head to the handle. The perforations are large and circular, and below there is a short flat bar which links the handle to the stem. This bears a maker's mark on one side of the key that shows a profile face looking left, with a hooked nose, within a crescent curving around the back of the head. The key fits into a socket which is hexagonally faceted externally. To one side of the socket, the spigot or pipe which brought liquid into the tap is now missing; the curved spout (taking liquid out of the tap) is rectangular in cross-section (7mm wide, 9mm high) with a rectangular aperture and a projection at the top of the curve.

The tap is 44mm long and 12mm high. The handle is 49mm high, 24mm wide and 2mm thick. Overall it weighs 23.19g.

Read shows a similar tap (1995, 97, No.603), which he dates to the 15th and 16th centuries, but excavated examples from Amsterdam are all dated to the early post-medieval period (Baart 1977, 352-6).
Depicted place (County of findspot) North Somerset
Date between 1400 and 1650
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1400-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 284478
Old ref: GLO-5E8406
Filename: 3018 Barrel tap and key.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/235627
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/235627/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/284478
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