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Description: | A cast copper alloy vessel fragment and possibly repair. The vessel is a fragment of a rim. The rim is vertical and is a sub-pointed oval shape in profile. The edges of the vessel body are broken, but these breaks are not recent. The body has an incomplete rivet hole. The patina of the body has a dark grey/green patina. The exterior is slightly rough, whereas the interior is slightly smoother. Over the edge of the rim of the body there is a second thick sheet of copper alloy, which is riveted with a copper alloy rivet to the body vessel. The rivet is flattened on the interior and exterior. This second component also has a second incomplete rivet hole. The patina of the second component has a light to mid green patina. The exterior of both components has traces of a black deposit, which is possibly carbon which built up during the cooking process. The object measures 48.71mm long from the rim to the end of the second component, it is 29.11mm wide, and 6.83mm thick at the rivet. It weighs 32.5g.This may be a repair to the vessel. Egan (Egan, G. 1998 The Medieval Household: Daily Living c. 1150 - c. 1450 The Stationary Office: London) illustrates repairs on sheet copper alloy vessels (488-494) but none of these fold over the rim, and the type of rivet is different. These date these to mid 12th to late 15th century. The same publication illustrates a copper alloy vessel (Figure 146) with riveted plates at the rim which have perforations to allow the vessel to be suspended. The rivets are similar, but again they are not folded over the rim. The vessel is probably a cooking vessel and Geake (Finds Recording Guide 2001) suggests cooking vessels date from the 13th to 17th centuries.
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