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Description: | Rim sherd from a large bowl or fire cover with pie crust decoration on the rim. The fabric is buff, oxidised to orange on the outside, with small sand, flint and chalk inclusions. The rim is bent outwards at 90 degrees to the wall and decorated with regularly spaced indents made with the thumb. The rim sherd is too small to definitively identify the original rim diameter but it appears to have been at least 240mm. The wall rises vertically from the rim suggesting a very deep or straight sided pot. There are extensive traces of sooting on the inside suggesting it was either used to hold embers or may have been used as a fire cove i.e. placed upside down over the embers at night to prevent sparks escaping and causing fires. Such covers usually had openings in the upper part to allow some air in to keep the embers alive, not present on the small part of the wall remaining on this piece.
This fragment is 113.3mm wide, 65.4mm wide and 13.0 mm thick, 23.7mm including the rim; it weighs 112 grams.
This style of pottery and fabric was used in Sussex in the 11th and 12th centuries. | Subjects: | Rim | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burnett, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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