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Description: | A Medieval to Post medieval cast copper alloy pot leg and foot. The leg is D shaped in section with a flat back and a front moulded into 3 parallel ribs running down its length. There is a raised transverse collar separating the leg from the foot at the front. The foot is also D shaped with three raised 'toes' on the front, it widens and projects forward from the collar to the base. The underside of the foot is flat. It is 70.04mm tall, 23.75mm wide and 16.22mm thick; it weighs 88 grams.Butler, Green and Payne (2009:4-6) categorise this type of pot leg as Type C and suggest they were: "already in use in the 16th century and (were) almost universal in the 17th" (p.4).
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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