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Description: | 62 pottery sherds, weighing 375g. 49 of the sherds are body sherds, weighing 282g and there are 13 rim sherds weighing 93g. All of the sherds appear to have come from the same vessel and they were found in the same hole. The vessel has an everted rim and the rim diameter is 160mm. There are abundant inclusions of flint and mica in the fabric. This pot has been wheelmade and a tool has been used to burnish it smooth. The burnishing is not perfect; the rim proper is very smooth but the rim sherds and the body sherds have horizontal striations which may have been caused by the burnishing process or they could be a result of the potter trying to ?tidy up? the surface. Traces of a black carbonised material are evident on a number of the sherds. So it is possible that this vessel held either a cremation or it was a cooking pot. This vessel dates from the Late Iron Age ? early Roman period. | 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: | -50
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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