Candlestick made from a red malt-drying brick. This is a section of a candlestick brick, comprising a single cylindrical socket with eight perforations in the bottom, and two perforations from the remnants of another socket next to the first. [MOBB [OPS move] 6/4/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Candlestick made from a red malt-drying brick. This is a section of a candlestick brick, comprising a single cylindrical socket with eight perforations in the bottom, and two perforations from the remnants of another socket next to the first. [MOBB [OPS move] 6/4/2017]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Suffolk Brandon
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Beatrice Braithwaite Batty
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1904
Date collected: By 1904
Acquisition information: Donated: 06/1918, uncertain Donated: 07/1918
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Recycled, Process Socketed, Process Perforated, Process Moulded
Dimensions: Height: max 49 mm, Width: max 43 mm, Length: max 50 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1918.25.176 Other numbers: CE 100 [C E 100]
Research and responses: [1932.88.1029 .3] says 'Perforated drying brick (for drying malt etc) commonly used by the gun-flint makers as candlesticks'. so it seems that a malt brick might be a normal brick [AP 19/07/2006]