An incomplete copper alloy pot leg of probable Medieval or Post-Medieval date (circa AD 1100-1800).
The upper edge where it would have been attached to a pot is broken in an ‘M’ shape. The sides are straight and there is a slight curve on the bottom edge of the foot. The leg is D-shaped in cross-section, with a flat inner surface and a convexing outer surface. The object has a smooth surface that is grey in colour, and an uneven surface patina.
The simple design without a foot is similar to figure 4d in Butler, Green and Payne (2009, pp. 5-6), which suggests this ‘design came into universal use in association with sand-casting and is therefore characteristic of all 18th and 19th century skillets’. Pot legs of this type are the most commonly recorded find, likely because they were particularly vulnerable to damage.
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