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Description: | A rim and body sherd of a Roman grey or black-burnished ware pot. The rim is everted and squared. Both exterior and interior surfaces have wheel marks from the wheel-throwing process. The fabric is hard, sandy and grey in colour, with well sorted small quartz and mica inclusions. The sherd weighs 30.52g, has a rim diameter of 50mm and is 106.32mm in length. The exterior surface has been smoothed in the production process, possibly through burnishing. Black- burnished ware is described on the Potsherd website: potsherd.net/atlas/Ware/BB2. Black burnished ware dates to AD 120 to 250 Laing.2003:59).
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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