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VESSEL
Unique ID: DEV-7F1E00
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A highly abraded Post-Medieval copper alloy pot leg, of Butler, Green and Payne's type C, probably dating to c. AD 1500-1700. The leg is sub-rectangular in plan and plano-convex in cross-section, with a prominent transverse collar dividing the foot and leg, with the latter lost to an old break. The inside edge is flat and plain.
Dimensions: length 46.0mm; width 31.9mm; thickness 13.1mm; weight 74.02g.
Butler, Green & Payne (2009) classify such legs as their type C, in use by the 16th century and ubiquitous by the 17th. A large number of other pot legs, as well as some metal working waste, found in the vicinity would suggest its deposition was possibly associated with recycling and foundary-related activity.
Class:
Pot foot
Sub class: Butler, Green and Payne Type C
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 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 49 mm
Width: 24.9 mm
Thickness: 14.5 mm
Weight: 71.06 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt: 019865
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Devon (County)
District: West Devon (District)
Parish or ward: Hatherleigh (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SS5504
Four figure Latitude: 50.81734338
Four figure longitude: -4.05974752
1:25K map: SS5504
1:10K map: SS50SE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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