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Description: | A fragment from a handmade ceramic vessel of Anglo-Saxon date, preserving the complete profile of one side of the wall, the rim, base and one lug handle. It has a dark grey sandy fabric with a little mica, some quartz and calcite inclusions. To one side at the top of the rim is a lug handle that is sub-rectangular in shape and section and has a transverse circular perforation. The rim of the vessel is approximately 7cm in diameter, is plain and undecorated. The exterior surfaces are heavily encrusted with perhaps some traces of burning/sooting and the underside of the base is flat, circular in shape and appears to have broken laterally perhaps as a result of the firing process or being subject to high temperatures. The interior walls and floor of the vessel have dark black sooting or burning and suggest that the vessel would once have contained something like oil that was burnt. The entire fragment measures approximately 7cm in diameter at rim, approximately 5cm in diameter at base, 7.48mm in thickness at rim, 4.62mm in thickness at floor, the surviving fragment is 79.54mm in width, 37.47mm in height, and weighs 64.98g.The fabric of this vessel suggests an early Anglo-Saxon date of the 5th-6th centuries AD. However, the form of the vessel is unusual and no close parallel could be identified. The extensive burning on the interior of the vessel, and the unusual handle, indicates the vessel may have contained something like oil to be burnt, possibly with more than one lug handle enabling suspension.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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