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Description: | Medieval to Post Medieval (c. 1100 until c. 1850) sheet vessel repair: The copper alloy vessel repair is made from an oval sheet of copper alloy which is folded over the rim of the vessel wall. In profile the traces of the original wall is visible, and this wall is also very thin and has possibly carbon build up from smoke. Along the lower edge there three layers are riveted together with three copper alloy rivets which have been flattened on each head. Towards the rim there is another circular perforation which has been punctured from the exterior to the interior; the interior edge has a burr to it. The surface of the repair has a mottled mid green patina. It is slightly bent in profile. It measures 48.97mm long, 50.04mm wide and is 4.82mm thick at the fold. It weighs 29.2g.These type of repairs were used to mend splits in sheet vessels (Egan; 1998, 176). The example illustrated by Egan has rivets cut from sheet copper alloy with a hexagonal shape in plan. It is uncertain what type of vessel, but the carbon may suggest a type of cooking vessels which were in use from c. 1100 until c. 1850 when cast iron cooking vessels are used instead (Butler, Green and Payne; 2009).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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