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Description: | A cast copper alloy cooking vessel leg/foot. The leg is a sub-trapezoid in plan, with rounded edges. The base of the leg is sub-semi-circular in section. The outer face of the leg is decorated with a prominent, integral vertical ridge which is triangular in section. The upper edge has a broken central section which is a sub-oval. This break is not recent. Around this break and on all the other surfaces there is a heavy black carbon deposit, which was probably due to smoke. The leg measures 39.51mm wide, 25.72mm tall and 24.59mm thick. It weighs 70.6g.
It is uncertain what type of vessel this leg comes from, but Egan (Egan G. 1998 The Medieval Household Daily Living c. 1150-c.1450 Museum of London, London, The Stationary Office) comments that commonly used cooking vessels in the Medieval period include skillets, ewers, and cauldrons. The carbon deposit may suggest a skillet or cauldron. Geake (Geake, H. 2001 Finds Recording Guide Unpublished) suggests such vessels were used from the mid 13th to 16th centuries.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: | 1250
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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