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Description: | Two fragments of coil built ceramic vessel of probably Bronze Age date. Both fragments are of a dark grey brown fabric that has an oxidised (red/orange) exterior and an un-oxidised core. There are abundant inclusions of flint, grog and irregular voids. These inclusions are poorly sorted and angular.One fragment is a rim sherd with part of the rim, neck and body of the vessel surviving. The vessel has been fire blackened from the rim to part way down the body. The rim is rounded and not defined from the neck of the vessel; it is 11.7mm thick. There are two lines of knuckle indentations decorating the exterior surface of the vessel; one row 7.9mm below the rim and the other 60.6mm below. The rim suggests an approximate rim radius for the vessel of 27cm. The breaks appear not tbe be eroded and reasonably fresh. This fragment is 206mm long, 160mm wide, 11.3mm thick and weighs 320 grams.The second fragment is a base sherd with 26.5mm height of the body remaining. The base is 12.5mm thick. The lower surface is uneven but displays no signs of the manufacturing process. The fragment is 78.1mm long, 53.9mm wide and weighs 60.24 grams.These are just two of 21 sherds found by the finder and seen by the FLO. All of the sherds seen appear to have had relatively fresh breaks.Neil Wilking comments:Middle or Late Bronze Age (1500-800 BC) date. The decoration is comparable to Deverel-Rimbury tradition (Gibson, A. and Woods, A. 1997, Prehistoric Pottery for the Archaeologist, Leicester: Leicester University Press (pp.142-5) (Second Edition) of Middle Bronze Age date.
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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