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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy leg, probably from a Medieval or Post-Medieval cooking vessel. The leg is broadly flat in profile and sub-trapezoidal in plan ?? tapering towards the base. A rib runs down the front of the leg. The two longest edges of the fragment incline towards the ribbed front of the leg, other than on the upper left hand side which is more rounded.
The fragment has a pitted surface with some striations. It has a green patina. There are some black deposits on the front, back and both edges of the leg, principally towards the narrower base. These are likely to be carbonaceous deposits and suggest that this was a cooking vessel ?? such as a cauldron or a skillet. Geake (2001, p46) states that cast cooking vessels seem to have come into use in the second half of the 13th century and continued at least until around 1600. | Subjects: | Leg | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Slarke, Duncan - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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