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Description: | A small post-medieval cast copper-alloy vessel leg and abraded foot. The leg is trapezoidal in cross-section with rounded corners and with a flat back; the front surface is narrower than the back. The foot is very worn at its base, diagonally in cross-section; it is assumed that this is following truncation as it would be inconsistent with usual wear through use. Just above the break there appears to be a low transverse ridge on the front, above which three longitudinal ridges, those that flank the central ridge curving outwards. The leg is connected to part of the curved body of the cooking vessel, broken all around to ragged breaks. The fragment has a dark-grey patina where it survives following corrosion.Crudely made cast copper-alloy vessels were widely used from c.1100-1800 for serving and cooking. Butler et al (2009, 4) suggest there were four main types of leg used. This example does not readily fit into their classification, though it is most consistent with post-medieval leg forms and with local cooking vessels of this date.
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