Snarling iron

A Snarling iron is a metal worker's tool used to drive the walls of metal vessels. "A snarler... is a worker in teapots, and may... be compared with the leaf bumper who bumps up the leaves commonly seen in metalwork".[1] Examples have come to light in different historical contexts, as in Chanhudaro,[2] Indus valley civilization.

Snarling iron excavated from Chanhudaro, Purana Qila Fort, Delhi

Notes
  1. Daily Mail 31 October 1900
  2. Paul Yule, A Harappan 'Snarling Iron' from Chanhu daro, Antiquity 62, 1988, 116–118, ISSN 0003-598X URL: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/volltexte/2008/145/
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