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VESSEL
Unique ID: WAW-575580
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A Medieval or Post Medieval (12th to mid 19th centuries) cooking vessel leg: In plan the leg is a sub-rectangle with a broken upper edge, the break is not recent. The lower edge has rounded corners and the base is sub-trapezoidal in plan. The outer face has a central vertical ridge and has a concave surface. The reverse of the leg is obliquely angled. The surface has a mottled mid green/brown patina. The leg measures 28.76mm tall, 41.49mm wide and 25.34mm thick. It weighs 58.69g.
It is uncertain what type of vessel this leg comes from, but Egan (1998) comments that commonly used cooking vessels in the Medieval period include skillets, ewers, and cauldrons. According to Butler, Green and Payne (2009), "From aboutAD 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would have had at least one metal cooking vessel....These vessels gradually passed out of use between 1700 and 1850, superseded by cast iron pots...".
Butler, R., Green, C. and Payne, N. 2009 'Cast copper-alloy cooking vessels' Finds Research Group AD700-1700 Datasheet 41
Egan G. 1998 The Medieval Household Daily Living c. 1150-c.1450 Museum of London, London, The Stationary Office
Class:
Cooking
Sub class: Leg
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1100
Date to: Circa AD 1850
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 28.76 mm
Width: 41.49 mm
Thickness: 25.34 mm
Weight: 58.69 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 21st February 2016 - Sunday 21st February 2016
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Warwickshire (County)
District: Stratford-on-Avon (District)
Parish or ward: Alcester (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP0957
Four figure Latitude: 52.21114767
Four figure longitude: -1.86970287
1:25K map: SP0957
1:10K map: SP05NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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