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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 reverse of the leg is straight and the front face is slightly angled. In section the leg is an elongated semi-circle. The foot is slightly bulbous on the front face. The upper edge of the leg is broken, this is not a recent break. Both the front and reverse faces has a traces of a black deposit which is probably a sooty/carbon deposit. Otherwise the surface has a mottled mid green coloured surface.
The leg measures 22.56mm tall, 20.7mm wide across the foot and 9.07mm thick. It weighs 16.2g.
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 a similar leg, No. 197 dates to the mid 18th century. | 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
1750 | 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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