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Description: | The foot is from a cast copper alloy cooking vessel. In plan it is a sub-rectangle with a rounded, slightly bulbous, foot. In profile the rleg is almost straight. In section the leg is an elongated trefoil. The upper edge of the leg is broken, not a recent break. The leg has a trace of a black deposit which is probably a sooty/carbon deposit. Otherwise the surface has a mottled mid green coloured surface. The leg measures 61.38mm tall, 35.57mm wide across the foot and 12.15mm thick. It weighs 112.7g. It is uncertain what type of vessel this leg comes from, but Egan (Egan G. 1998 The Medieval Household Daily Living c. 1150-c.1450 Museum of London, London, The Stationary Office) comments that commonly used cooking vessels in the Medieval period include skillets, ewers, and cauldrons. 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 which date to the mid 18th century.
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