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Description: | A hand made ceramic artefact used in the process of salt production and known as briquetage. The artefact is a supporting pillar. The finder retrieved five and a half of these supporting pillars and handed one in to the Portable Antiquities Scheme for recording onto the database. The artefact is trapezoidal in shape although this example is slightly more sub-rectangular than the others (see photograph provided by the finder).The pillar has a reduced (grey) core and a thin reduced (orange) surface 2mm thick increasing to a maximum of 20mm at the corners. The process of salt production (resulted in/meant that) the pillar being exposed to repeated episodes of high temperature which has resulted in the fabric of the artefact, particularly the centre, becoming more porous and resembling pumice stone. This pillar is almost complete however the surfaces of the four corners at the widest end are missing making the reduced core visible.Dimensions: Length 260mm, width 105mm tapering to 85mm, thickness 90mm tapering to 85mm. The artefact weighs 1814.4g (4 lb).
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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