Handle

Metal handle from a container or, as previously described, a torque. Diameter about 94 mm. Wire round in section beated out and rolled at the ends. Metal encrusted with grey matter, possibly iron. Was broken in two when the catalogue card was typed in about 1910 but is now in three pieces. CONDITION NOTE 1998: Heavily corroded, small area of green corrosion products and red brown Accession register entry 16 November 1906, no. 334 "Iron torque”. 1906 annual report p. 53 "iron torque (334)".