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Description: | A fragment of a copper alloy vessel of probable medieval to early post-medieval date. The fragment consists of part of the flat, upright rim and some of the body of the vessel. Internally the rim slopes down and inwards to the wall of the vessel. The curviture suggests a large bowl-shaped vessel such as a cauldron; there is sooting on the external wall of the sherd, probably from use in a domestic fire and indicates its use as a domestic cooking vessel. Dating such objects without contextual association or other diagnostic evidence (such as patterning) is very hard; copper alloy cooking vessels were in use for several hundred years, so this object could date from c. 1200-1700 AD.
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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