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Description: | Small body sherd of a hand-made earthenware vessel dating from the Bronze Age, c. 2150-800BC. The vessel sherd is comparatively thick and heavy for its size which is typical for Bronze Age pottery. It was made from very gritty local clay with many medium-sized and larger inclusions of grit and quartzite. The fabric is rough and the breaks show inclusions of up to 5mm long. What looks like the inside is of almost black colour and the outside is light brown/skin colour. The inside is plain, but the outside is decorated with at least three very crude horizontal lines. The upper and lower lines coincide with the breaks. The curvature of the sherd is unusual in so far that what looks like the inside (the 'the black side' is convex rather than concave and the outside convex. However, the sherd may have come from the part of the vessel that lies between the shoulder and the rim. Considering the probable diameter of the sherd, it probably came from a wide-rimmed vessel and it is very probable that the vessel was very heavy when complete. The vessel sherd does not resemble sherds that have come of Bronze Age urns and it is more likely that it was part of a domestic vessel, e.g. a large storage vessel for grain or similar.
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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