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Description: | An assemblege of 19 ceramic sherds.One sherd is pale cream in colour, weighing 10.56g, and is a fragment of late Post-Medieval to Modern field drain. One orangey-pink soft fabric rim sherd weighs 10.69g is a fragment of Post-Medieval vessel. One rim sherd has an abundance of calcitic inclusions and has been identified as possibly being Prehistoric or Saxo-Norman, however another archaeologist has suggested that it could range in date from Roman to Medieval but doubts a Saxo-Norman date. This sherd weighs 22.59g. This rim of this fragment has a length of 59.95mm, thickness of 13.19mm and maximum height of 26.31mm. Two holes, of 2.97mm diameter, have been made through the sherd, presumeably to allow the vessel to be suspended. These holes have not been positioned at equal height belwo the rim. One hole is set 11.58mm down from the rim and in from the nearest break by 8.69mm. The other hole is set 14.82mm down from the rim and in from the nearest break by c.8.70mm. The two holes are separated by a length of c.34.90mm.Two of the sherds contain incomplete handles projecting from the body and one of these, the one more orange in colour, also has part of the rim present c.9.42mm above the top of the handle. The orange sherd's handle has a width of 47.68mm and thickness of 16.48mm. A hint of the presence of thumb inpressed decoration can be seen on the upper surface of the handle. The second handle sherd handle has a width of 53.19mm and thickness of 14.20mm. The upper surface of this handle has a central verticle groove with a verticle parallel row of depressions (possibly formed with the tip of a finger or thumb) either side of the groove. These two sherds have a combined weight of 158.35g. These sherds are Medieval in date and probably 12th century AD to 14th century AD.A body sherd of Medieval date has a weight of 17.73g. The inner surface of the sherd is a light orange colour. The external surface has is a pale buff/grey with small amount of green glaze surviving, the calcitic inclusions show through creating a speckled apperance. There is an abundance of calcitic inclusions although most of these have leached out of the internal surface. A pellet of white slip has been applied to the external surface as decoration and then this pellet has been impressed with a criss-cross grid. Remains of, possibly irregular lines or curves, applied white slip are present to either side of the pellet just next to broken edges. This might be Lyveden Stanion ware.The remaining sherds are of grey to buff-orangey-brown colour. These are Medieval in date and probably of c.12th century AD date. All but two of these sherds is a rim sherd and one of the non-rim sherds is a corner sherd of base and body. One of the rims has a rectangular cross-section, this rim has been depressed twice by a finger or thumb in order to create a slightly wavey rim as a form of decoration. One of the upright beaded rims has parallel diagonal lines of three inpressed dots along the top of the rim and combed parallel slightly wavey groves (two are visible) along the external surface of the body, starting just 4.33mm below the base of the rim. The total combined weight is 237.44g.
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