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Description: | A sherd of prehistoric pottery found in a molehill in a garden.Phil Jones reports:The sherd is tempered with crushed calcined flint with a few iron inclusions probably inherent within the clay. The sherd is 7mm thick and is, or was, burnished both sides and includes part of five combed grooves that seem likely to have been horizontal.Such relative thinness, the burnishing, the burnt flint fabric, and the grooved decoration is characteristic of Middle Bronze Age Deverel Rimbury globular urns, although such decoration and fabric is also found in late Iron Age pottery (such as that from Tongham, Surrey). I tend towards this being MBA but in any case am intrigued by the freshness of the sherd.
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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