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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 broken upper edge, the break is not recent. The lower edge has rounded corners. The outer face has a central vertical ridge. The surface has a mottled mid green/brown patina with traces of a carbon build up. The leg measures 41.52mm tall, 33.46mm wide and 15.11mm thick. It weighs 71.9g.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would have had at least one metal cooking vessel....These vessels gradually passed out of use between 1700 and 1850, superseded by cast iron pots...".Butler, R., Green, C. and Payne, N. 2009 'Cast copper-alloy cooking vessels' Finds Research Group AD700-1700 Datasheet 41Egan G. 1998 The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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