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Description: | Medieval to Post Medieval (c. 12th to mid 19th century) cooking vessel rim: The rim is slender and tapers to a blunt edge. The only original edge is the rim, the other edges of the fragment are all broken, but not recently. Both the interior and exterior surfaces are smooth with the external surface having traces of a black substance which is carbon deposits presumably. The surface is a shiny mid to dark green/grey colour. The fragment measures 32.31mm wide across the rim and 18.94mm long from the rim to the lower edge. It weighs 5.3g. The rim curvature suggests the diameter originally was c. 150mm.The shape of the rim fragment suggests this was probably a type of cooking vessel. It is uncertain what type of vessel, but Egan (1998) comments that commonly used cooking vessels in the Medieval period include skillets, ewers, and cauldrons. Butler, Green and Payne (2009) comment that rim fragments which are found as individual fragments are likely to be from cauldrons or posnets. These vessels are in use from c. 1100 until c. 1850 when cast iron cooking vessels are used instead.Butler, R., Green, C. and Payne, N. 2009 'Cast copper-alloy cooking vessels' Finds Research Group AD700-1700 Datasheet 41Egan G. 1998 The Medieval Household Daily Living c. 1150-c.1450 Museum of London, London, The Stationary Office
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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