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Description: | A fragment from the rim and spout from a Spouted Strainer Bowl of Roman date. A short length of the rim restored from several small fragments survives intact, along with the wall of the vessel and the spout, which is currently from the body of the vessel. This vessel has a fine grey micaceous fabric with small clay pellet inclusions that is similar to wares from the Wattisfield, Suffolk area and is therefore probably of local production. It has pale cream coloured exterior surfaces that have been smoothed off and show traces of corrosion or encrustation due to deposition within the ground.The rim measures approximately 140mm in diameter at its inner edge, 7.18mm in thickness, and is incurving with an almost flat upper/resting surface that has two shallow circumferential grooves. Beneath the grooves the wall of the vessel has a carination followed by a vertical section where the strainer and spout project, with a second carination beneath the spout where the wall terminates in old breaks. On one side of the wall is the straining area, which comprises a series of unevenly applied and irregular circular perforations that appear to have been applied after the vessel was formed and punched from the interior outwards.The spout itself is detached from the wall of the vessel. It is conical in shape tapering towards an everted rim that is incomplete due to old breaks and therefore of uncertain diameter. It measures 43.61mm in length, and with an internal diameter at the mouth of the spout of 19.11mm, an external diameter at its narrowest point of 22.75mm and a thickness of 4.38mm. On the interior surface of the spout are numerous small circular perforations that correspond to the perforations of the strainer, indicating the spout was also in place when the strainer holes were formed. The entire fragment measures 129.55mm in width, 57.20mm in height, 5.25mm in thickness, and weighs 98.98g. This is a fragment from a Roman Spouted Strainer Bowl similar to other examples excavated in Ardleigh, Essex (Brown et al., 1999: pp. 117 nos. 82.4-6, fig. 82 nos. 4-6). Bowls such as this were in use in Britain from the last decades of the 1st century BC in bronzework, with the earliest ceramic examples in the mid-1st century AD (c.30-50 AD). It has been suggested that these bowls emerged initially to serve as strainers for local, British ('Celtic'?) drinks such as beers and as such were essentially 'local' products with little influence from the Roman world (Brown et al., 1999: pp. 121-124). This example is of probable 1st century AD date and of local production.
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