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Description: | Cast copper alloy cauldron foot, trapezium-shaped in plan, triangular in profile and rectangular in section, broken at the point where it would have attached to a leg to support one side of a cauldron. The upper surface of the foot is smooth and has never had ribs or claws, but does have casting flaws as it tapers towards the missing leg. The base of the foot is slightly hollowed and damaged at one edge where the foot might have melted in the fire to create a molten bubble, now hollow. The end of the foot has been filed and polished to create a chamfered edge. The angle of the foot to the leg suggests that it might have been from the back leg which supported more weight. See CORN-E75F85 and CORN-0C2D27 for similar examples.Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 96, No.600, which is dated from the 13th to the 17th century.Butler and Green (2003) illustrate a cauldron with everted feet on page 166, Fig.1, which is dated from the 15th to the 16th century.Egan (1998) illustrates a similar example with a solid plano-convex foot at right angles to the leg on page 164, Fig.132, No.457, which is dated to c.1350-1400.
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