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Description: | A body shard from a Roman black burnished ware vessel. A small amount of wedge-shaped rim does survive, but not enough to take an accurate diameter measurement. There is a strip, approx. 30mm wide, running around the centre of the outer face of the vessel, which is decorated with comb marks in a herring-bone pattern. Very similar in form to black burnished ware type 13., listed in Excavations at Greyhound Yard, Dorchester 1981-4 (Woodward et al. 1993, p.233). These are round-bodied, open bowls, some, such as this one, with wedge-shaped rims. Those vessels with the upright rim are thought to date largely to the 2nd-3rd centuries AD. The decoration correlates most accurately with their type D34 (ibid. pp.245-7). Whilst the fabric is dark-brown in colour, with the remains of brown-black burnishing on the outer surface, which becomes worn and slightly reddish in colour towards the top. Abundant fine quartz and occasional red iron ore inclusions, with several medium sized, rounded voids. Probably fabric BB1, produced in the Wareham/Poole harbour region between the 1st and 4th centuries AD.
Length: 70.99mm, Width: 67.23mm, Thickness: 8.88mm
Weight: 40.83g | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Booth, Anna - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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