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Description: | Rim sherd of a relatively thick walled Midlands Purple Ware pottery vessel, probably a dish or bowl of post medieval date (1600 ?? 1720). This sherd is relatively fresh with broken edges. The fabric of the sherd is a very hard earthenware with a number of small rounded and sub-angular grit and quartz inclusions. There is also a high proportion of mica and sand like grains present in the fabric. The fabric colour is brown purple and the inner and outer surfaces of both sherds are a mottled purple grey. Both surfaces may have been burnished as it is very smooth. There is no glaze present on the sherd. An applied strap handle is present on the outer edge, this is relatively crude and suggests the vessel was functional rather than decorative. The diameter of the vessel can be estimated from the curvature of the rim; this is approximately 20cm; the sherds represent 15% of the rim. There is not enough of the body of the pot surviving to give an estimation of the depth or overall form/shape of the vessel.
The sherd measures 91.5mm length, 54.8mm width, is 12.5mm thick (rim), 7.4mm thick (body) and weighs 91.79 grams. | Subjects: | Midlands Purple Ware | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Reavill, Peter - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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