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VESSEL
Unique ID: SF-3DDE75
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete and worn copper-alloy zoomorphic foot from a Medieval cooking vessel. Only part of the base of the foot survives, the remainder of the object is missing due to old breaks, now worn.
It is pointed oval in form and plano-convex in section, terminating at the top of the foot in old breaks.
This vessel foot measures 22.27mm in height, 22.59mm in length, 21.26mm in width, 14.99mm in thickness, 45.62g in weight.
There is a similar example from London (Egan, 1998, p. 164, no. 457).
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 22.27 mm
Width: 22.59 mm
Thickness: 14.99 mm
Weight: 45.62 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st January 2014
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: OKY 031
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Mid Suffolk (District)
To be known as: Brome and Oakley
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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