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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 leg is bulbous towards the foot. In section the leg is an oval. The upper edge of the leg is broken, this may not be a recent break. The face of the leg has patches of a heavy black deposit which is probably a sooty/carbon deposit from the smoke of a fire. Otherwise the surface has a mottled mid green patina and red copper corrosion. The leg measures 25.63mm tall, 14.86mm wide across the foot and 11.19mm thick. It weighs 16.1g. 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 similar legs, but are larger and 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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