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Description: | A Medieval or Post Medieval cast copper alloy leg and foot detached from a cooking vessel, probably a cauldron (c. 1200-1800 AD). The solid leg measures 87.9 mm long and includes the remnants of the flange where it would have joined the body of the vessel. The join end is curved and oriented diagonally to the leg, followed by the leg itself with triangular cross section, which tapers towards a protruding semi-circular collar on the front surface and a D-sectioned foot (max. thickness 31 mm; min. thickness 18.8 mm). The back surface of the vessel leg is flat, whereas the apex of the triangular leg runs centrally down the front surface, followed by the semi-circular collar, and smaller flat foot. The leg weighs 300g and is greyish-green in colour, suggesting a higher tin content to the metal. The surface of the vessel foot has a high degree of sooting, confirming that this was attached to a cooking vessel.There are parallel examples on the PAS database (cf. SUSS-473520; WILT-505606), as well as in Egan (1998, 165, No. 133). Cast copper alloy vessels were widely used from c.1200-1800 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'. While particular cast copper alloy vessels such as skillets remained in use later, 'bronze cauldrons in general seem to have been superseded in the early years of the 18th century when their place was taken by cast-iron vessels which were cheaper to make and more durable to use.'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; cf. WILT-505606).
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