English: Parts of an Anglo-Saxon sheet metal bowl made of copper alloy.

The bowl itself is intact from the rim until about half way down. The rim diameter is 196mm and the bowl is c.160mm deep. The handle is in 2 pieces and is made from iron. It measures 195mm in length most of it survives.

Most of the base is missing and the edges are very uneven where it has broken. There are c.10 other fragments of the base. It has a globular body (shown by the small part of the base still present) with an everted rim. There is 1 triangular projection forming a lug with a circular perforation. There would have been 2 but 1 has broken off. This is where the handle would have attached to the bowl.

The outside surface has some blackening on it- perhaps it was used above a fire. This type of vessel is generally associated with burials although no other related material was found nearby. They are known as hanging bowls.

Cf. two examples in MacGregor and Bollick, p.256 nos.51.1 and 51.2.