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Description: | A Medieval to post-Medieval cast copper-alloy cooking vessel leg/foot (c. 1250-c. 1650).At the front, this leg has a vertical central mid-rib and is flat at the rear. At the top there is a transverse break. The base of the foot is flat.The object is corroded and has patches of consolidated soot, on all surfaces excluding the break.This leg was probably originally part of a cauldron.Height: 40.5mm; width: 46.0mm; thickness: 20.1mm. Weight: 119.42g.Cast cooking vessels seem to have come into use in the second half of the 13th century and to have continued at least until c. 1600 (Geake 2001: 52).Geake, H. 2001. Finds Recording Guide. Unpublished.Butler, R., Green, C., and Payne, N. 2009. Cast copper-alloy cooking vessels. The Finds Research Group Datasheet 41. Finds Research Group.
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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