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Unique ID: WAW-ED455A
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A Medieval or Post Medieval (12th to mid 19th century) cooking vessel leg: The foot is a sub-rectangle, with a rounded lower edge and broken upper edge. The break is not too recent. In profile the reverse of the leg is straight and is sub-rectangular in section with a vertical ridge on the exterior face. This ridge is off-centre perhaps suggesting that a portion of the side edge is broken. The surface is abraded and has a mottled mid green coloured patina with patches of a carbon build up. The leg measures 21.23mm tall, 30.51mm wide across the leg and 12.2mm thick. It weighs 25.1g.
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 about AD1100, cast copper alloy vessels...were commonly used for down hearth 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would have had at least one metal cooking vessel....These vessels gradually passed out of use between 1700 and 1850, superseded by cast iron pots...".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: Foot
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1100
Date to: Circa AD 1850
Quantity: 1
Length: 21.23 mm
Width: 30.51 mm
Thickness: 12.2 mm
Weight: 25.1 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 4th July 2016 - Monday 5th September 2016
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
4 Figure: SP0770
Four figure Latitude: 52.32804974
Four figure longitude: -1.89870761
1:25K map: SP0770
1:10K map: SP07SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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