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Description: | One sherd of glazed earthernware. Reduced grey core with oxidised orange margins. The dark green glaze has been patchily applied over the surface. There are patches off-white slip under the glaze in places.The fabric is tempered with fine sand. The rim of a slightly domed vessel with a large central aperture. Around the aperture the vessel is dished, possibly as a lid seat. Around this are numerous sub-circular pierced holes, possible for venting or heating. There are traces of a probable handle at one side. It is unlear precisely what this vessel is, but it is similar to early post medieval examples from Norfolk and Hampshire, identified as warming pots, fuming pots or pomanders ( McCarthy, M. R. and Brooks, C. M, 1988, Medieval Pottery in Britian, pages 416 and 460, figures 263 and 287).Date: Post medieval -17th centuryWeight: 82g | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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