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Description: | Fragment of medieval ceramic vessel, probably a cooking pot. The fragment is subrectangular in plan, with a diagonal break across the body. It is a rim fragment with a small externally flanged rim and the body curving away almost immediately when viewed in profile. The fabric is a grey ware, with a slightly red outer surface. It has sand and grit inclusions. The fragment is decorated with combed wavy lines to the inner and outer surfaces. The top of the rim is decorated with a running pattern of three pierced lines. The fragment is 38.56mm long, 45.2mm wide, 10mm at the body and weighs 18.53g. The rim is 12.9mm wide and 5mm thick.A similarly decorated pot is shown in Cunningham, 1984, 'Summary of the pottery produced in the (Middleborough) kilns', in Crummy, 'Excavations at Lion Walk, Balkerne Lane and Middleborough, Colchester, Essex', Colchester Archaeological Report 3, figure 175, number 10 (though the vessel form is different). Cunningham also notes (page 187) that fabrics from the kiln were red to grey in colour, often both, with grey predominating as in the example recorded here. It is also noted (page 188) that combing occurs on both the inside of the top of the neck of vessels as well as to the external body, often accompanied by the pierced decoration, as is also the case here. It is likely that the fragment recorded here is a product of the Middleborough kilns, given its close proximity to the find site. On that basis this fragment dates from the mid 12th to early 13th century.
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