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Description: | One ceramic wheel-thrown probable Severn Valley base sherd, dating from the 2nd-4th century AD (35mm x 24mm; thickness: 17.5mm; weight: ). Severn Valley ware has a hard, fine-textured fabric, typically brown or reddish-orange at the surface and sometimes with a grey core (particularly in the thicker parts). The fabric is slightly micaceous with little visible temper, but coarser ?gritted? (with sand, grog and clay pellets as well as a little iron ore) or vesicular (?burnt organic) variants known. Surfaces are usually burnished and mostly wheel-thrown. Severn Valley comes in a variety of forms including storage jars, bead-rim jars, wide mouthed jars, bowls, tankards, flanged bowls, dishes/ platters and lids. This ware flourishes in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, and continues into the 4th century. There area a number of kiln sites dating to the 2nd/ 3rd century at Alkington, Glos; Ledbury, Herefordshire; Wroxeter, Salop; Bransford, Worcs; Great Malvern, Worcs and Malvern Link, Worcs. Tyers, P, 1996, ?Roman Pottery in Britain?, pages 197-99. | 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: | 100
400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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