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Description: | A Medieval or Post Medieval (12th to mid 19th centuries) cooking vessel leg: In plan the leg is a sub-rectangle with a asymmetrical rounded foot and a broken upper edge. This break is not recent. The leg is rectangular in section with rounded edges and the outer face is decorated with a slight central vertical ridge. The surface has a mottled mid green/brown patina with traces of a carbon build up. The leg measures 60.33mm tall, 33.71mm wide and 14.16mm thick. It weighs 100.4g.It is uncertain what type of vessel this leg comes from, but Egan (1998) comments that commonly used cooking vessels in the Medieval period include skillets, ewers, and cauldrons. According to Butler, Green and Payne (2009), "From about AD 1100, cast copper alloy vessels...were commonly used for downhearth cooking, with the vessel sitting among the embers or suspended over the fire. All but the poorest medieval or post-medieval households would have had at least one metal cooking vessel....These vessels gradually passed out of use between 1700 and 1850, superseded by cast iron pots...".Butler, R., Green, C. and Payne, N. 2009 'Cast copper-alloy cooking vessels' Finds Research Group AD700-1700 Datasheet 41Egan G. 1998 The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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