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Description: | Pottery Jar. Salmon pink to buff fabric with sparse tiny black and rare white inclusions and occasional voids, wheel thrown, with a concentric pattern on its flat base from striking off. The hardness of fabric suggests kiln firing. The vessel body is slightly bulbous and flat based. A slightly everted rim is externally thickened but is worn or otherwise indented at two nearly opposed points. Wallace Collyer of the North Lincolnshire Pottery Research Group examined this vessel and suggests an Early Medieval to Medieval date, c.1000-1300, principally from its form and apparently unglazed fabric. He notes the very varied surface of the vessel, which might arise from its use or its burial environment. He suggests possible uses including a toy, or a small measure, as for medicine.The small size and shape suggest this vessel to have been formed by the potter inserting his thumb into a lump of clay on the wheel, with the rim possibly produced by pinching as a secondary operation - a distinct process from the hand-moulding of small thick pots as crucibles for metal working. The form is appears to be a product of the technique of manufacture, rather than imitating the form of a larger vessel. This was probably a 'sport', too crude to represent a commercial product, though possibly apt to serve as a toy or a bird seed holder. A date similar to that of other toy miniatures in various materials, particular lead alloys, might equally be possible. Suggested date: Unknown, Early Medieval to Post-Medieval, 1000-1750.Diameter: 52mm, Height: 47mm, Thickness: 3.5mm, Weight: 55.04gms.
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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