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VESSEL
Unique ID: NLM-BF8434
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Iron vessel fragment. Cast everted rim and part of the upper wall of a cauldron with a rounded body. A sharply angled round section handle is attached, with its upper end butting the rim and its lower end springing from the vessel wall. A raised circumferential ridge of width 4.5mm passed around the vessel at the level from which the handle was set, with another rib 24mm lower down the wall. Dr Kevin Leahy kindly notes that the casting of iron objects was essentially a post-medieval development. A satirical engraving of c.1641 shows an English soldier on campaign in Ireland equipped with looted household goods which include a cauldron with everted rim and angled handles as appear here (Elliot-Wright, P.J.C. 1997, Brassey's History of Uniforms: English Civil War, Brassey's, London, page 66). Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1700.
Estimated diameter (at rim): c.260mm, Height: 107mm, Thickness (wall): 4.1mm, Weight: 194.77gms
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
Height: 107 mm
Thickness: 4.1 mm
Weight: 194.77 g
Diameter: 260 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 5th August 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM38047
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Springthorpe
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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