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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy leg from a vessel(probably). Surviving length: 53.2mm, width: 22.6mm, thickness: 11.6mm; mass: 67.9g. The fragment is broadly rectangular in plan, with a sub-semi-circular cross-section, slightly ribbed on the convex side (front). The ribs run from end to end of the fragment. One end has a broken uneven surface. The break is not recent. The other end is slightly angled, but flat with a slight depression in the centre.The surface of the leg is light green and pitted, with black ?carbonaceous deposits visible. These deposits are extensive near to the broken edge. The deposits suggest that this was a cooking vessel - a skillet or a cauldron. Curiously, there appear to be some black ?carbonaceous deposits visible on the broken end of the fragment. Geake (2001, p46) states that cast cooking vessels seem to have come into use in the second half of the 13th century and continued at least until around 1600.
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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