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Description: | Medieval or Post Medieval (12th to mid 19th centuries) probable cooking vessel leg: In plan the leg is a sub-rectangle. The lower half is solid, with a vertical triangular rib on the outer face, and is sub-trapezoidal in section. The upper half of the leg is off-set from the outer face forming a back plate with irregular and possibly broken side edges. The upper edge is possibly broken, but not recently, and it is smooth. The back plate also has an irregular hole which may be due to corrosion or damage, but again this is not recent damage. The reverse face is slightly undulating throughout its length and is not off-set unlike the outer face. The surface has a mottled mid green/brown patina with patches of a carbon build up on all faces, including the off-set upper back plate. The leg measures 109.23mm tall, 46.21mm wide and 23.04mm thick. It weighs 296g.If this is a cooking vessel leg, and it probably is, it is uncertain what type of vessel this leg comes from, but Egan (1998) comments that commonly used cooking vessels in the Medieval period include skillets, ewers, and cauldrons. According to Butler, Green and Payne (2009), "From about AD 1100, cast copper alloy vessels...were commonly used for downhearth cooking, with the vessel sitting among the embers or suspended over the fire. All but the poorest medieval or post-medieval households would have had at least one metal cooking vessel....These vessels gradually passed out of use between 1700 and 1850, superseded by cast iron pots...".Butler, R., Green, C. and Payne, N. 2009 'Cast copper-alloy cooking vessels' Finds Research Group AD700-1700 Datasheet 41Egan G. 1998 The Medieval Household Daily Living c. 1150-c.1450 Museum of London, London, The Stationary Office
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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