Two funnels, related tasks
Vive Cabeceiras · Terras de Basto · objetos do quotidiano

A familiar shape can hold different uses.

In the 2016 inventory, funnel L63 is linked with transferring wine; L18 with passing liquids between containers. Both are made from sheet zinc. Reading the recorded function avoids guessing use from shape alone. Compare them with the alheira funnel: a similar-looking object can serve another task.

L63 measures seventeen centimetres high and 17.7 in diameter; L18 is smaller, at 12.5 centimetres high and ten in diameter. The inventory associates the first with Álvaro Magalhães of Devesa, Basto, and the second with Maria da Conceição Magalhães in Arco de Baúlhe. These are recorded owners’ details, not indications of who made the pieces.

Dimensions, material and function make the comparison more concrete. A greater diameter does not by itself reveal how many litres passed through a funnel or what work took place in a particular house.

Sources and context
Basto Land Museum — Latoaria in Cabeceiras de Basto V (18/01/2016), L63, L18 and MSRM88
https://museuterrasbasto.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/a-latoaria-em-cabeceiras-de-basto-v/
Accessed: 2026-11-07

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