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Description: | The foot is from a cast copper alloy cooking vessel. The foot is a 'hoof' type. In plan it is a sub-trapezoidal. In profile the reverse of the leg is straight and the front face obliquely angled. The lower portion of the leg is sub-triangular in section with two front faces forming a sub-trefoil. This tapers in plan, towards a horizontal collar. Above the collar the leg is broken. This break is not recent. Both the front and reverse faces has a light black deposit which is probably a sooty/carbon deposit. Otherwise the surface has a mottled green/beige coloured deposit. The leg measures 34.32mm tall, 24.17mm wide across the foot and 17.47mm thick. It weighs 49.3g.These cooking vessels, according to Geake, date from the mid 13th to 16th centuries. Butler and Green (2003 English Bronze Cooking Vessels and Their Founders 1350-1830 Acanthus Press) illustrate vessels with a similar leg, No. 158 dates to the 17th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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