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VESSEL
Unique ID: BERK-AD93B1
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy leg from a small cast copper alloy cooking vessel, like a cauldron or possibly a ewer. The vessel leg has a roughly circular cross section, with a flat but angled top where it attached to the bottom or side of vessel bowl, and an angles foot; when standing, the leg would have risen c. 30mm to the vessel. Cast copper alloy cooking vessels were in use for a long time, and this example dates from between c. AD 1350 and c.1600.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1350
Date to: Circa AD 1660
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 68.8 mm
Weight: 70.6 g
Diameter: 15.8 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 2012 - Tuesday 6th March 2012
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 2011.899
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: Cherwell (District)
To be known as: Bicester area
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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