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Pot Parts, handles, mounts all ages

Bronze skillet, ewer and cauldron fragments.

 

These bronze or copper alloy vessels would have been very expensive to make but would have been used for generations and repaired constantly. Lead pot mends are a common find. These are difficult to date as they range from the Roman to 18thC.

 

Medieval bronze bucket handle mount 84.33g, 28.39mm W,32.16 L x 23.84mm T

 

A deep circular hollow in the back of the head is for the attachment of a handle and the break at the neck is where the head would have been soldered to the side of the vessel

The mount represents the laver's greatest point of weakness and thus its most vulnerable point of weakness. A complete laver with female head mounts is in the collections of the British Museum (Cat No MME 1956, 7-2,1) '
Roman bucket loop
Roman bronze bucket handle mount 24.8g, 56.63mm L x 26.25mm w
Lower part of leg from a cauldron
Leg from a ewer
Bucket handle part
Bowl foot
Lower part of leg from a cauldron
Leg from a ewer
Leg from a ewer
Foot from a small bowl or statue
Leg from a ewer
Pot foot
Lower part of leg from a cauldron
Bowl leg
Bowl leg
Bronze Pot shard
Foot from a small bowl or statue
Lower part of leg from a cauldron
Roman bronze 'lion head' cauldron mount
Lower part of leg from a cauldron
Bronze Pot shard
Bronze Pot shard
Georgian bowl leg
Leg from a ewer
Medieval complete bronze pot leg

 

Roman/British bronze handle or leg ? 42.48 mm L x 15.92 mm W

Medieval bronze pot leg

Monster sized medieval bronze pot leg 92mm L - Georgian watch winder for size

Medieval pot feet

Medieval Chaffing dish handles