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An Enamelled Skillet-Handle from Brough-on-Fosse and the distribution of similar vessels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

C. N. Moore
C. N. Moore
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Grosvenor Museum, Chester
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The enamelled skillet-handle illustrated (FIG. I) was found in 1972 at Brough-on-Fosse, Nottinghamshire, by Mr John Hart. The handle adds a further example to the rare group of vessels with cham plevé enamelling which include the Rudge cup and Amiens skillet. The Brough skillet-handle measures 3 in. (7·8 cm) in length and is enamelled on the upper side; the reverse is plain. The enamelled decoration consists of a panel of vine-leaf ornament repeated five times. The enamel has flaked, but it appears that red was used in the centre of the vine leaf surrounded by a deep blue and then a green. These vessels are conveniently referred to as being enamelled, but recent analyses have shown that, in common with late Iron Age enamelwork, these are not true enamels but only coloured glass, which has not fused with the bronzework.

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Britannia , Volume 9 , November 1978 , pp. 319 - 327
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Copyright © C. N. Moore 1978. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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1 Vide Appendix, No. A, I.

2 ibid., No. A, 2.

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