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Description: | An incomplete Roman wheel made ceramic vessel. It is a jar or beaker. The fabric is hard, and is reduced grey and coarse with rounded clear and white inclusions that vary from medium to large sizes; the fabric is Upchurch ware. The base is flat. The body swells outwards towards the shoulder, where it contracts towards the neck (missing). It has a geometric design at the base of the neck; it includes a repeating pattern of three incised vertical lines and three incised 135 degree angled lines (left leaning) that run between each set of verticals. These are borded by an incised line at the top and at the bottom of the pattern. The vessel is missing the neck and rim. The extrerior has an oxidized red slip that is missing on a portion of the body. The interior is partially oxidized on one side. There are red encrustations on both the interior body and on the exterior; the interior encrustations run in three semicircular lines down from the edge to the centre of the body, suggesting that there was something inside and the pot was resting on its side. There are also small dark circles on the interior, opposite of the red ones, and towards the base. There are two cracks that run from the edge, and run away from each other towards the body. It weighs 610 g, and measures 79.53 mm DIA at the base, and 185 mm DIA at the shoulder, and is 5.46 mm TH at the break at the neck. It stands 157 mm H. It dates between the 1st - 3rd centuries.de la Bedoyere, Guy. 2000. Pottery in Roman Britain. Peterborough: Shire ArchaeologyLaing, L. 2003. Pottery in Britain: 4000 BC to AD 1900. Whitham: Greenlight PublishingMonaghan, Jason. 'Upchurch Fine Ware' http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-457-1/dissemination/pdf/vol04/vol04_15/04_15_405_408.pdf
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