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Description: | A Medieval to Post Medieval cast copper alloy handle and portion of rim and body detached from a cooking vessel, probably a cauldron (c. 1200-1800 AD). The remains consists of a lightly facetted, five-sided handle, which is curved an a nearly ninety-degree angle from the large everted rim and curved body segment. The fragment isn't decorated, but has a smooth even dark green patina on the inner and outer surfaces. The fragment measures approximately 75.14 mm long, 52.91 mm wide, with an approximately 42.8 mm wide everted rim, 14.69 mm thick (at handle), 2.48-3.62 mm thickness between the rim and body wall respectively; the fragment weighs 150 grams. The internal diameter is approximately 14 cm; the external rim edge is too damaged to estimate using a rim chart, but based upon the large rim width, it is likely that the vessel measured approximately 100 cm in width at its outer circumference.This vessel fragment is much larger and heavier than the majority of examples discovered in Sussex and it was found within close vicinity to a vessel leg of the same proportions as this fragment, suggesting that both items belonged to the same large cauldron (recorded on the PAS database as SUSS-180E1C).There are related examples illustrated in Egan (1998, p. 163). Cast copper alloy vessels were widely used from c.1200-1800 for serving and cooking. Butler and Green (2003; 15) state 'there is evidence that [cast copper alloy] metal cooking vessels became increasingly common during the 13th and 14th centuries'. While particular cast copper alloy vessels such as skillets remained in use later, 'bronze cauldrons in general seem to have been superseded in the early years of the 18th century when their place was taken by cast-iron vessels which were cheaper to make and more durable to use.' (Ibid: 22; cf. WILT-505606).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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