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Description: | Incomplete ceramic vessel fragment of Medieval to Post Medieval date. The pottery fragment is a slightly curved chunky body sherd with no trace of the rim, base, handle or other decoration to aid identification. The fabric is a pale creamy-buff to pale grey colour with the external surface being smoothed and appearing to have a pale beige-grey slip and the internal surface being rough and granular to the touch with a mid pink-yellow/buff colour. The cross section of the fabric shows a paler grey core sandwiched between two pink-buff layers. Inclusions of occasional sub-rounded iron oxide grains and large to small sub-angular to sub-rounded white quartz along with more abundant quantities of smaller grains of sub-rounded to sub-angular sand/quartz can be noted.This sherd has been provisionally identified as Nottingham light-bodied green glazed ware (NOTGL) despite the absence of any green glaze on this particular sherd which would put it in a dating zone of 1200-1400.An additional description/identification was later provided by David Budge: 'Body' fragment of probable ridge/roof tile. Very highly fired. Splash of external lead glaze, burnt. Sanding to interior suggests it was laid on a sanded surface during construction, this being the usual method for making tiles / CBM but not pots, but quite unusual as characteristics of the fracture suggest the object may have been coil built, though this could possibly be explained as being the result of a very poorly mixed clay? This fabric (along with the very high firing temperature) suggests a late medieval (at the earliest) and most likely post medieval date, but due to the unusual features the opinion of a specialist on these materials should be consulted.
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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