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Description: | A Medieval or Post Medieval cast copper alloy leg and foot detached from a vessel, probably a tripod ewer or skillet (c. 1200-1800 AD). The solid leg measures 52.6 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 triangular-sectioned and pointed foot (max. thickness 23.9 mm; min. thickness 13.7 mm). All surfaces of the vessel foot are smooth and undecorated, although the narrowest side of the foot has a vertical groove running towards the join. The leg weighs 176g and is deep green in colour. The surface of the vessel foot has a fair degree of sooting, suggesting that this was attached to a vessel used for cooking.There are parallel examples on the PAS database (cf. SUSS-15BF54), 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cast copper alloy vessels such as skillets remained in use later, 'bronze cauldrons in general seem to have been superseded in the early years of the 18th century when their place was taken by cast-iron vessels which were cheaper to make and more durable to use.'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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