Vessel metal / skillet

Description

Skillet with leaded bronze body and handle but modern brass base, ornamented with champlevé enamel in red, blue and green with a vine scroll and a wreath, Roman, from Linlithgow, West Lothian, late 1st or 2nd century AD

Museum reference

X.FA 43

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Vessel metal / skillet

Date

Late 1st - early 2nd century

Materials

Bronze, Lead, Brass, Enamel

Physical description

Leaded bronze (with tin in the bronze alloy) with a modern brass base; ornamented with champleve enamel in red (copper), blue (cobalt), and green (copper and lead).

Collection place(s)

Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

On display

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