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Description: | Three fragments of a wheel-thrown Roman mortarium. The rim is wall-sided, characteristic of the 4th century AD. The fabric is hard and fine with sparse red rock and flint inclusions. It is light-brownish cream buff in colour with a cream to pink slip. The inner surface is gritted with abundant angular quartz (3.97mm- 0.93mm), flint (4.41mm-0.59mm) and red stone (6.32mm-0.87mm). It has a diameter of 13cm. The wall of the sherd is 12.20mm in thickness and the base is 15.39mm thick. The sherds have a combined weight of 1400g. The three sherds represent approximately 80% of the entire vessel. The vessel is probably a Oxfordshire white-ware mortarim, which dates from the 2nd to 4th century AD. A description of Oxfordshire white ware can be seen on the Potsherd website: http://potsherd.net/atlas/Ware/OXMO .
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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