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Description: | The foot is from a cast copper alloy cooking vessel. In plan it is a sub-rectangle with a rounded foot. In profile the reverse of the leg is straight and the lower portion of the front face is slightly off-set and is thereby narrowed. In section the leg is an elongated semi-circle. The upper edge of the leg is broken, this may be a recent break. The reverse face has a trace of a black deposit which is probably a sooty/carbon deposit. Otherwise the surface has a mottled mid green coloured surface. The leg measures 43.64mm tall, 27.82mm wide across the foot and 13.05mm thick. It weighs 69.82g. 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. 197, dates to the mid 18th 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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