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Description: | Rim fragment from a late Medieval or Post Medieval cast copper alloy vessel. The thick everted rim is dished with a concave upper side and convex curved lower face. The flat top edge is thickened by a rounded swelling on the inner face. The lower point has broken before the constricted neck. The internal surface is smoother than the outer which has raised smoothing lines from the clay mould. On the inner face 8.4mm below the rim is a pair of narrow raised lines running around the circumference of the vessel, each emphasised by indented lines of varying width to each side of the raised line. The exterior is extensively sooted and the breaks are old. The fragment is 45.6mm long, 29.7mm wide, 4.1mm thick at the top, 3.7mm thick at the lower edge and weighs 23.46g. It is estimated the original vessel was c.200mm in external diameter at the rim.The concave everted rim would allow a lid to be securely sat on the pot. Cast copper alloy vessels were widely used for cooking over open fires from c.AD 1100-1800 (Butler, Green and Payne 2009:1).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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