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Description: | Cast copper alloy pot leg and foot. The leg is D-shaped to triangular in section with an almost flat back, convex front and a slight central ridge running down the front; it has an old break at the attachment end. The foot is triangular with a straight back and a front divided into three lobes. It widens and thickens from the joint with the leg.It measures 33.5mm long by 40.1mm wide and is 25.4mm thick. It weighs 92.7 grams. There are traces of sooting.Crudely made cast copper alloy vessels were widely used from c.1200-1700 for serving and cooking. Butler and Green (2003; 15) state 'there is evidence that (cast copper alloy) metal cooking vessels became increasingly common during the 13th and 14th centuries'. Although earlier copper alloy vessels, mostly in copper alloy sheet, are known they are rarer and mostly of sheet metal or hammered out (ibid; 7). While certain specialist cast copper alloy vessels such as skillets remained in use later 'bronze caldrons in general seem to have been superseded in the early years of the 18th century when their place was taken by cast-iron vessels which were cheaper to make and more durable to use.' (ibid: 22).
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