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Description: | Incomplete Late Iron Age to Roman centre-looped cosmetic mortar dating to the 1st - 2nd centuries AD. It is broken, worn and corroded with pitted and damaged surface. Much of the loop is missing. One bovid-headed terminal survives but the other terminal is broken across a vertical perforation. The mortar has a broad shallow U-shaped groove (width 7mm) containing ferrous corrosion. Weight 28.66g. Cf. Jackson 1985. Found near the pestle described in record number NMS-7C3556.
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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