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Description: | Foot and part of the leg of a very large and handsomely-cast cauldron leg of copper alloy. It is cast in the shape of a Lion's paw, with five distinct lobed and rounded, nearly equal toes spreading in semicircular format over a breadth of 60mm and a thickness or depth at the centre of 35mm. The leg itself is semicircular in section, but slightly channeled at either side of the front so as to create the appearance of a tripartite column or leg with frontal tendon. The junction between the leg and the foot is marked by a circumferent collar or ridge passing around the whole front of the semicircular-sectioned structure. The back of the foot and leg are flattish and smooth, and even slightly recessed at the centre. This example has a massive or ponderous formality. Nonetheless the casting is crude, apparently having been made in sand, traces of this material, or its impression, appearing in surplus metal which clogs the casting between the toes. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1350
1550 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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