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Description: | A copper alloy, which appears to be heavily leaded, cooking vessel leg/foot: In plan it is a sub- rectangle with a narrow upper edge flaring outwards. The face of the upper edge is obliquely angled and whose edges are broken. This face is sub-triangular in plan and forms the interior surface of the vessel. The broken edges are not recent breaks. The lower edge of the foot is also broken and heavily abraded. The leg is circular in section. The surface is slightly abraded and has a mottled matte mid green/grey coloured patina. The leg measures 78.21mm tall, 28.89mm wide and 20.88mm thick. It weighs 100g.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. According to Butler, Green and Payne (Butler, R., Green, C. and Payne, N. 2009 'Cast copper-alloy cooking vessels' Finds Research Group AD700-1700 Datasheet 41), "From about AD 1100, cast copper alloy vessels...were commonly used for downhearth cooking, with the vessel sitting among the embers or suspended over the fire. All but the poorest medieval or post-medieval households would have had at least one metal cooking vessel....These vessels gradually passed out of use between 1700 and 1850, superceded by cast iron pots...".
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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