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Description: | A foot from a post-medieval cast copper-alloy cooking vessel, probably a cauldron. The foot is triangular in cross-section with a flat back. The foot is significantly tapered, which may be the result of wear. It measures only c. 9.1mm wide at its tip. It is notably worn to both sides. The leg is decorated with three prominent longitudinal ribs, the central one the most prominent, flanked by lower ribs to each side. Retained at the top of the leg is the curved inner surface of the vessel itself, with worn edges at the breaks. The fragment is of a dark-grey colour, possibly the result of sooting. It is 55.2mm long, 37.0mm wide and 21.6mm thick; it weigh 122.0 grams.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 is a type C which they suggest was already in use by the 16th century and was almost universal in the 17th, although it tends towards Type D which is from the following centuries.
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