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VESSEL
Unique ID: NARC-EA9342
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
cast copper alloy vessel fragment. Heavily fire damaged.
According to Butler, Green and Payne in Finds Research Group Datasheet 41, "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would have had at least one metal cooking vessel....These vessels gradually passed out of use between 1700 and 1850, superceded by cast iron pots..."
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1100
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 24th April 2012
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Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: Daventry (District)
Parish or ward: Preston Capes (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP5853
Four figure Latitude: 52.172221
Four figure longitude: -1.153317
1:25K map: SP5853
1:10K map: SP55SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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