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Description: | Small and abraded body sherd from a Mortaria (mixing vessel with a gritted inner surface) dating from the Roman period 50-300 AD. The fabric is fairly uniform and hard with small angular grit, iron stone, and quartz inclusions. The fabric colour is a dirty beige white. A large proportion of the inner grinding surface survives; this has a number of angular, sub-angular, and rounded quartz, grit and iron stone inclusions impressed into the surface of the clay. The interior surface is heavily worn.The mortaria is most likely to have been made at kilns in OxfordshireThe sherd measures 36.3mm length, is 35.5mm width, 7.8mm thick and weighs 10.72 grams.
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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