Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by context]
7. culinary equipment
8. [culinary equipment for preparing and cooking food]
9. cooking irons
10. baking irons

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Object Genres
4. object genres
5. object genres by function
6. ceremonial objects
7. religious objects
8. liturgical objects

Anotations

Scope note:

Iron instruments similar to waffle irons, composed of two palettes that come together with the aid of two handles acting as a lever; designed to create Eucharistic hosts for Christian liturgies. A Christian symbol is typically engraved in the iron bed and stamped onto the hosts. Early examples produced hosts of around one-fourth inch thickness; later examples produced wafer-like hosts. The existence of host irons is established as early as the ninth century, although the earliest surviving example dates to the twelfth century. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century host irons have been preserved in large numbers, and are quite similar to those now in use.