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Description: | A rim shard of a handmade, coiled ceramic vessel, probably dating from the Iron Age. The rim is rounded and has been thickened on the outside. The fabric is soft, with a grainy texture, is light grey buff in colour and irregularly fired. There are common small rounded black inclusions and voids from burnt out organic material and some rare medium flint inclusions. There is an incised band of decoration below the rim in the form of oblique hatching. Below them is the start of incised oblique lines in the opposite direction, forming a herringbone pattern. It has a diameter of 20cm. The sherd is 29.76mm L x 28.88mm W, and 9.49mm in thickness. It weighs 10.21g.
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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