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Description: | Pottery Bowl. Complete handmade bowl of fine buff quartz tempered fabric with occasional white possibly calcareous inclusions; a break shows a buff core with oxidised inner and outer margins. The vessel is coated in a red slip inside and out. The form is a simple hemisphere with a markedly thickened and overhanging internal rim. The slip is worn away by use within the base of the bowl. This vessel was one of a group of five similar vessels found together. A very similar near-complete vessel from the same group was also submitted by the finder's twin brother (NLM-FE04E20); the fabric of that vessel was deemed compatible with a local origin by Wallace Collyer of the North Lincolnshire Pottery Research Group.Dr Terry Manby has examined this vessel and comments that it is a product of a moderately skilled potter and is undoubtedly kiln fired. The object should therefore be ascribed to modern craft activity. This reporter deems his opinion conclusive, though other ideas previously canvassed are considered below.The finder notes the similarity of the simple bowl form to Neolithic pottery displayed in Cambridge. Opinions have been offered by various authorities. Hugh Winfield, SMR officer for North East Lincolnshire, noted the similarity of the forms to Neolithic or Bronze Age pots, and also noted the radiocarbon dating of peat in the vicinity to the Neolithic period. Mike Hemblade, North Lincolnshire HER officer, cautioned that the fabric appears unusually hard fired for such an early date. Ian Rowlandson, a specialist in local pottery, also considered the fabric improbable for a Neolithic date, but noted form and finish would admit a Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age origin, citing examples of pottery from Thwing, East Riding of Yorkshire, and Danebury, Hampshire. Dr Kevin Leahy, Finds Advisor for the Portable Antiquities Scheme, concurred with others in perceiving similarity to Early Iron Age burnished wares reported from the South of England, and also to sherds recently reported as surface finds from Yorkshire. John Buglass, a specialist in maritime archaeology , has drawn attention to more recent pottery recovered from comparable coastal locations. These workers recommended consultation with Terry Manby, whose conclusion is presented above.Suggested date: Modern, 1950-2010Diameter: 160mm, Height: 60mm, Thickness (at rim): 12mm, Weight: c.500gms.
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