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Description: | 13th-17th Century. Copper alloy, cast, broken cauldron or similarly large cooking receptacle broken leg and foot. Length 74.8mm, Width 34.8mm, Thickness 22.3mm, Weight 164g. Relatively narrow, slender shaped foot with three toe moulded design, a transverse ridge and three ribs or column moulded design above. There is a small, concave, surface with attractive pale green patina right on the top - which was part of the inner surface of the receptacle, otherwise slightly corroded surface with remains of bitumen or pitch lacquer. Ref. History Beneath Our Feet, Brian Read, Anglia Publishing Ipswich 1995, page 94-96 No. 590 & 594 and Detector Finds 3, Gordon Bailey, Greenlight Publishing 1997, page 36-37 No. 1 & 5.
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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