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Description: | A Medieval or Post Medieval copper alloy leg from a cooking vessel. In plan the leg is a sub-trapezoid with the most narrow edge being the lower edge of the foot. This edge is rounded and slightly damaged, but not recently. The leg is rectangular in section with rounded edges and the outer face is decorated with a central vertical ridge. The upper edge of the leg is broken, but not recently. The surface has a mottled mid green/brown patina with traces of a carbon build up. The leg measures 27.71mm tall, 37.23mm wide and 16.71mm thick. It weighs 58.2g.t 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would have had at least one metal cooking vessel....These vessels gradually passed out of use between 1700 and 1850, superceded by cast iron pots...".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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