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Description: | 1 sherd of Black Burnished ware. Poole/Wareham industry BB1 fabric. Reduced dark grey to black fabric (occasionally buff or orange oxidised) with abundant, rounded, translucent, quartz sand (up to 2 mm), occasional shale, iron and flint pieces (up to 5 mm). A rim sherd from a jar with a very slightly everted rim (WA type 1). The sherd is abraded. Handmade vessel.
Date: Late Iron Age to Early Roman - 1st century BC to early AD 2nd century
Weight: 5g
Identified with guidance from Rachael Seagar-Smith
For the Wessex Archaeology type series see "Black Burnished Ware and other Southern British coarsewares" in Excavations at Greyhound Yard, Dorchester (1993) | Subjects: | Jar | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hayward Trevarthen, Ciorstaidh - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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