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Description: | Two thin walled body sherds of medieval (1250-1450) earthenware pottery. These two sherds fit together along a relatively recent break. The other breaks are worn. The conjoined sherd probably came from the body of either a storage vessel or cooking pot. As there is a large amount of soot adhering to the outer surface it is likely that the pot was used over a fire at one point. The fabric of the pottery is relatively hard with a number of rounded and sub-angular quartz, grit, ironstone, mica, and broken burnt pottery inclusions. The fabric colour is a mid grey white orange, the outer surface is a dark brown black and the inner surface is a mottled grey. This multi-tone effect has been caused by low temperatures within the kiln and is typical of early pottery. Neither of the two sherds is glazed. Due to the smallness of the body sherd the circumference of the vessel cannot be estimated. When the two sherds are joined they measure 56mm length, 42.8mm width, 6.6mm thick and weigh 20.45 grams.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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