Find Spot record 7628 - Cooking Vessel Fragment

<1> Portable Antiquities Scheme, Various, Portable Antiquities Data Import, WMID-22EAF8 (Digital Archive). SCH5212.

An incomplete cast copper alloy foot or leg from a copper alloy cooking vessel of Late Medieval to Early Post Medieval dating (AD 1400 - AD 1700). The vessel fragment is sub rectangular in shape and sub rectangular in cross section. It consists of a straight body, with an external central rib. The internal surface is smooth. At the top of the leg, a curved section of metal is present, this is the remnants of the vessel base. Traces of a black patina are present at the base of the foot/leg. The base of the foot is slightly abraded. It measures 95.5 mm in length, 49.4 mm wide and 14.9 mm thick. It weighs 242.5 grams. The vessel foot/leg is predominantely a light to mid green colour, with an uneven surface patina. Abrasion, caused by movement whilst within the plough soil, has resulted in a loss of some of the original surface detail. The remains of copper alloy cooking vessels have been regularly recorded through the PAS, with many variants on the design. This leg was probably originally part of a cauldron, similar to the example illustrated in figure 1 of Butler, Green & Payne's 2009 datasheet on Cast Copper Alloy cooking vessels. These vessels tend to be of late Medieval to Early Post Medieval dating (15 to 18th Centuries AD). Referesee (3).

<2> The British Museum, Portable Antiquities Scheme Online Database, WMID-22EAF8 (Web Site). SCH5176.

<3> Butler, R., Green, C. and Payne, N., 2009, Cast Copper-Alloy Cooking Vessels (Article in Journal). SCH7821.