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Description: | Cast-copper alloy foot from a medieval or post-medieval vessel. Mass: 230g; extant length: 55 mm; width of foot: 47mm; depth of foot: 41mm. The fragment consists of a paw-like foot, sub-triangular in section, and the stub of a leg, set at an angle, sub-D shaped in section and broken at the top. The break is not recent. The base of the foot is very uneven. The fragment has a pitted green surface, although it may be partially sooted as there are some black deposits on the surface (not on the break) which suggests that this may have been from a cooking vessel. Geake (2001, p46) states that cast cooking vessels seem to have come into use in the second half of the 13th century and continued at least until around 1600. The leg is broadly similar to number 460 in "The Medieval Household. Daily Living c.1150-c.1450", Egan, 1998, fig. 132 and p.166. Number 460 is from a context with ceramics dating to c.1400-c.1450.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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