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Unique ID: CORN-77AFD7
Object type certainty: Certain
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Cast copper alloy rim fragment from a bowl or cooking vessel with an internally bevelled rim that is triangular in profile and flush with the upper edge of the vessel. The body of the vessel curves downwards slightly to suggest a reasonably deep straight-sided bowl or a deep straight-sided everted rim, as seen on cauldrons, and the curvature of the rim suggests a diameter of about 280 mm. The bevelled rim itself is 5 mm thick which then tapers to the body which is 3.6 mm thick. There are patches of burnt organic material on the exterior of the fragment, which suggests that the vessel was used for cooking.
Ottaway and Rogers (2002) illustrate a similar fragment of a cooking vessel with an internally bevelled rim on page 2810, fig.1394, no.14197, which is dated from the mid 15th century to the early 17th century.
Butler & Green (2003) illustrate cauldrons with internally bevelled rims on page 119, No.119, which is dated from the 17th century, and on page 142, no.145, which is dated to c.1500.
Egan (2005) illustrates a similar example of a bowl fragment with a flared rim and straight-sided body on page 99, Fig.85, No.444, which is dated from c.1550-1600.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Quantity: 1
Height: 26.6 mm
Width: 31.5 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight: 11.38 g
Diameter: 280 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 7th November 2014
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
4 Figure: SW9859
Four figure Latitude: 50.39608767
Four figure longitude: -4.84349432
1:25K map: SW9859
1:10K map: SW99NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Butler, R. and Green, C. | 2003 | English Bronze Cooking Vessels and Their Founders 1350-1830 | Honiton, Devon | Roderick & Valentine Butler | 119 & 142, | nos.119 & 145 | |
Egan, G. | 2005 | Material Culture in London in an Age Of Transition: Tudor and Stuart period finds c.1450 - c.1700 from excavations at riverside sites in Southwark | London | Museum of London Archaeology Service | 99, Fig.85, | No.444 |