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Description: | Pottery body sherd with oxidised orangey-brown exterior surfaces and reduced light brown interior with off-white felspar and dark grey augite inclusions which suggest that it was made of gabbroic clay from the Lizard in Cornwall.
The uniformity of the interior surface, and the parallel striations in the clay, suggest that this fragment is from a vessel that was wheel turned on a slow wheel. The exterior surface is abraded, so it is difficult to know if there might have been any surface treatment.
All these factors suggest that it is from a Romano-British vessel, probably from a large jar like one illustrated in Quinnell (2004) on page 119, Fig.57, No.95, which has a very similar fabric and surface colouration. | 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: | 1
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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