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Description: | Heavy cast item of copper alloy with good general patination and of irregular shape resembling an animal's neck and head. It appears to be an applied casting, i.e. a piece made to a general shape and cast in position onto another item, from which it has since been broken off. The most likely explanation for its function is as the leg of a mediaeval vessel. So viewed, the item, which is somewhat amorphous, is symmetrical in the vertical axis, having a squared 'leg' descending to a flat 'base' or 'foot' 10mm wide and 14mm long, but with a rising and everted, rather shapeless notched element. When this whole object is turned upside-down relative to the way it has just been described, it slightly resembles an animal's neck and head. However, the flat 'base' encourages on eto think that it is meant to be understood as described. The top of the 'leg' shows a series of surface impressions in raised relief, corresponding to notches or grooves on a lost object which was adjoining when the metal of this casting was applied to it in a molten condition - i.e., it has taken on the surface details of a lost adjoining piece. This end or surface is also very irregular and suggests such a breakage or cleavage. Hence the presumption may be that the marks correspond to the base of the vessel from which this leg has been broken off. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Plunkett, Tom - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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