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Description: | The foot is from a cast copper alloy cooking vessel. The foot is a ?hoof? type. In plan it is rectangular, with a narrowed mid point. In profile the reverse of the leg is straight and the front face forms a wide ?>?. The lower portion of the leg is sub semi-circular in section with two front faces forming a sub-trefoil. This tapers in plan, towards a horizontal double-cordoned collar. Above the collar the leg is broken. This break is not recent. Both the front and reverse faces has traces of a black deposit which is probably a sooty/carbon deposit. Otherwise the surface has a mottled green/beige coloured deposit.
The leg measures 61.28mm tall, 39.77mm wide across the foot and 22.48mm thick. It weighs 222g.
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. 158 dates to the 17th 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
1700 | 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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