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Description: | A cast copper alloy cooking vessel leg and foot. In plan it is a sub-rectangle with a flared and rounded foot. In profile the reverse of the leg is almost straight except the foot is obliquely angled outwards. In section the leg is an elongated pointed oval, but is only 6.54mm thick. The foot is slightly bulbous and on the front face has three moulded ridges which are similar to paws. The upper edge of the leg is broken, this is not a recent break. Both the front and reverse faces has a heavy black deposit which is probably a sooty/carbon deposit. Otherwise the surface has a mottled mid green coloured surface with occasional orange patches. The surface is also slightly pitted. The leg measures 53.28mm tall, 39.28mm wide across the foot and 32.15mm thick. It weighs 114.7g.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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