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Cooking vessel foot
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Megan Gard, 2019-11-21 08:28:24
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Cooking vessel foot
Description
English: A fragment of a medieval copper-alloy cooking vessel foot dating to c. AD 1300 - 1600. A foot form a large cauldron. The foot trapezoidal and an irregular faceted pentagon in cross section (flat at the back and on the underside). It tapers towards the broken upper edge. It is decorated with deeply moulded vertical ridges, angled inwards towards the top.

Width: 66.27 mm
Height: 53.32mm
Thickness: 35.77 mm

Weight: 400 g

Crudely made cast copper-alloy vessels such as cauldrons and skillets were widely used from c.1200-1700 for serving and cooking. Butler et al. (2009:4) suggest there were four main types of leg used.

Depicted place (County of findspot) Dorset
Date MEDIEVAL
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FindIdentifier: 981252
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/1082072
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1082072/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/981252
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Object location50° 41′ 48.48″ N, 2° 22′ 12.94″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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