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Description: | Rim sherd of a thin walled cooking pot or storage vessel probably dating from the 14th or 15th centuries (1300-1450 AD). The fabric is a very hard fired or over-fired earthen ware with a number of small angular and sub-angular grit and quartz inclusions. The fabric colour is grey white. The outer and inner surfaces of the sherd are a darker shade of grey. There is no glaze present. From the rim of the sherd a diameter for the pot can be estimated; this would be approximately 22cm, however, only a small area of rim survives so this estimate may be inaccurate. The over firing is probably due to the sherd or pot being in an uncontrolled fire rather than being initially over-fired in the kiln. This would explain the brittle nature of the sherd.
The sherd measures 23.7mm in length, 20.2mm width, maximum thickness (rim) 11.9mm, minimum thickness (body) 7.8mm. Weight 6.32 grams | 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: | 1300
1450 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Peter Reavill | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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