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VESSEL
Unique ID: CORN-F1B491
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete cast copper alloy receptacle foot, sub-rectangular in plan and tri-lobed in section, with three remaining ribs and a broken edge on either side which would have originally extended to the full width of a claw foot, probably from the end of the leg of a cauldron. Butler and Green (2003) illustrates two cauldron feet on pages 144-5, Nos.149-150 which are dated to the 17th century. Read (1988) illustrates similar foots on page 95-6, Nos.589 & 595, which are dated from the 13th to the 17th century.
Class:
cooking vessel
Sub class: foot
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 46 mm
Width: 37 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight: 90.3 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st February 2008 - Thursday 28th February 2008
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: St. Minver Highlands (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW9575
Four figure Latitude: 50.538755
Four figure longitude: -4.894415
1:25K map: SW9575
1:10K map: SW95SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butler, R. and Green, C. | 2003 | English Bronze Cooking Vessels and Their Founders 1350-1830 | Honiton, Devon | Roderick & Valentine Butler | 144-5, | Nos.149-150 | |
| Read, B. | 1988 | History Beneath Our Feet (1988) | Braunton | Merlin | 95-6, | Nos.589 & 595 |
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