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Description: | The object is the leg/foot of a cooking vessel. The leg is cast copper alloy. In plan it is an inverted triangle. The widest edge is the upper broken edge, but not a recent break. In length the leg is 27.9mm long, 43.2mm wide and 16.4mm thick.
In section (horizontal section) the leg is a sub-oval shape which has a triangular sectioned vertical ridge on the exterior surface. The base of the foot is a blunt point, with rounded edges and irregular surface.
The surface of the leg is heavily pitted with corrosion, and has a black soot deposit on the outer and inner surfaces. There are patches of a heavy green/brown patina.
Cooking vessels, according to Geake, date from the mid 13th to 16th centuries. | 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: | 1200
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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