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VESSEL
Unique ID: SUSS-E0CDFF
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A Medieval to Post Medieval cast copper-alloy incomplete pot leg foot, probably dating from c. 13th-mid-17th century AD. The foot is D-shaped with with worn 'toes' on the front, it widens and projects slightly forward from the collar to the base. There is a raised transverse collar separating the leg. The top of the leg is broken above the collar. The underside of the foot is flat.
It measures 32.2mm tall, 22.5mm wide and 16.2mm thick; it weighs 50.02 grams.
Crudely made cast copper alloy vessels were widely used from c.1200-1700 for serving and cooking. Butler and Green (2003; 15) state 'there is evidence that (cast copper alloy) metal cooking vessels became increasingly common during the 13th and 14th centuries'. Although earlier copper alloy vessels, mostly in copper alloy sheet, are known they are rarer and mostly of sheet metal or hammered out (ibid; 7). While certain specialist cast copper alloy vessels such as skillets remained in use later 'bronze caldron's in general seem to have been superseded in the early years of the 18th century when their place was taken by cast-iron vessels which were cheaper to make and more durable to use.' (ibid: 22).
Class: Leg/Foot
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 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 32.2 mm
Width: 22.5 mm
Thickness: 16.2 mm
Weight: 50.02 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 15th February 2018 - Wednesday 28th February 2018
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: West Sussex (County)
District: Arun (District)
Parish or ward: Patching (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ0808
Four figure Latitude: 50.86143362
Four figure longitude: -0.4668154
1:25K map: TQ0808
1:10K map: TQ00NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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