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Description: | A rim and body sherd of Derbyshire ware. The fabric is hard and heavily gritted with a surface like 'petrified gooseflesh', the colour varying from grey and light-brown to red. The surface texture is due to the presence of silica particles in the local clay (Webster, 1976, page 13). The fill is very thick and coarsely made. There are two small grooves running just below the rim and at the bottom of the neck before the vessel's body slopes outwards. Its dimensions are 74mm x 45mm, the thickness at the base of the neck is 20mm and it weighs 79.05g).
This sherd is very similar to an example of type A19 & A37, type A rim, dated from 150-350 AD from the kilns at Hazelwood and Holbrook, Derbyshire, (Webster 1976, 33, fig 6).
Most examples of Derbyshire ware vessels are deep bell-mouthed jars. It has been suggested that the rim form is to hold a lid, but no lids have ever been found. Therefore, it may be more likely that stoppers were used instead (Kay 1962, 34). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 150
350 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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