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Description: | Seven sherds of a courseware wheelmade Pinched Neck Flagon dating to AD43 - 75 (the Military phase). The sherds in total weigh 545g, although the basal sherd maybe not relate to this exact vessel. Six of the sherds do join together (see photograph) but they have not yet been stuck back together because more sherds are likely to be found. Represented within this assemblage is the neck and spout of the pinched neck flagon weighs 182g, a body sherd without a handle attachment weighing 107g and a body sherd with part of the handle attachment weighing 95g. Two more body sherds weighing 44g and 34g. The handle weighs 33g and a basal sherd weighs 48g. The rim has been made normally on a wheel. The potter has then used his thumb and first finger to 'pinch' the spout of the flagon, hence the name. The handle begins about 23mm down from the rim. The handle has broken off but the scars from the break can be seen on some of the other sherds. The handle has been crudely made from two rolls of clay, which have been pinched together with a depression left between the two rolls. The body sherds are thicker nearer to the rim c. 6mm but get thinner closer to the base c. 5mm. The clay has a mixture of inclusions including mainly flint >2mm, a few grog inclusion >2mm and tiny flakes of mica. The sherds are largely un-abraded and the edges are not that worn, the breaks in fact look quite fresh. Parallels for this type of flagon can be seen in Cunliffe, 1971, pp201-3 (reference below).
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