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Description: | A corroded Medieval to post-Medieval foot from a cast copper-alloy cooking vessel (c. 1250-c. 1650).The foot is trapezoidal in plan and sub-triangular in cross-section. The front has three prominent vertical ribs and the rear face is partially flat. At the top there is a transverse break and the underside is irregular and uneven. It has numerous gas bubble voids.This foot is corroded overall and has patches of consolidated soot. The break at the top is old.Height: 45.4mm; width: 56.5mm; thickness: 36.9mm. Weight: 289.87g.Cast cooking vessels seem to have come into use in the second half of the 13th century and to have continued at least until c. 1600 (Geake 2001: 52).Geake, H. 2001. Finds Recording Guide. Unpublished.Butler, R., Green, C., and Payne, N. 2009. Cast copper-alloy cooking vessels. The Finds Research Group Datasheet 41. Finds Research Group.
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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