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Description: | A cast copper alloy vessel leg and foot. In plan it is a sub-trapezoid with a rounded foot lower narrow edge. The upper edge is broken and is obliquely angled. The break is not recent. In profile the upper portion of the leg is straight, and then tapers slightly towards the foot. The foot is then rounded. The surface of the leg is abraded and no patina remains. There are some areas of red copper corrosion. There is one trace of a black deposit which is probably a sooty/carbon deposit. The leg measures 52.4mm tall, 42.22mm wide and 16.71mm thick. It weighs 141.1g.
The leg is probably from cooking vessel, and the trace of a black deposit possibly suggests it was originally stood or suspended over a fire. 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: | 1250
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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