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Description: | A Medieval to post-Medieval leg/foot from a cast copper-alloy cooking vessel (1250-1650).The object is sub-rectangular in plan and sub-triangular in cross-section.The front has a prominent vertical rib. At the rear the surface is flat and plain. The sides taper in width from the top towards the bottom. It has a bulbous foot.This leg is drab matt green with patches of dark grey/black consolidated sootThere is an old break at the top where part of the inner surface of the vessel survives.Height: 76.0mm; width: 31.7mm; thickness: 20.2mm. Weight: 113.88g.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 Unpublished.Butler, Green and Payne 2009: Finds Recording Guide - Datasheet 41.
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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