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Description: | Four fragments of late Iron Age to early Roman briquetage. One fragment is dark brown in colour with a pinkish red core and cylindrical. The other fragments are of various shapes and creamier in appearance and may have been burnt at some point in their history. One clearly has a natural vitreous green coloured glaze, which must have resulted from exposure to high temperatures. All the fragments show evidence of a vegetable matter temper in the form of striations where the natural material has burnt away during firing or the salt making process. These fragments have a bulk weight of 217.63g.
Fragments of briquetage are evidence for the production of salt. In the Late Iron Age and Roman period, salt was produced by evaporating brine in pottery pans supported on hand made bricks of roughly cylindrical shape known as briquetage. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | McDonald, Caroline - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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