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Description: | Two abraded body sherds from Mortarias (mixing vessel with a gritted inner surface) dating from the Roman period AD 50-300. The larger fragment is from the base of the vessel whilst the fragment is laminated due to frost. The fabric is fairly uniform and hard with small angular grit, iron stone, and quartz inclusions. The fabric colour is a dirty beige white. A large proportion of the inner grinding surface survives; this has a number of angular, sub-angular, and rounded quartz, grit and iron stone inclusions impressed into the surface of the clay. The interior surface is worn. The mortaria is most likely to have been made at kilns in Oxfordshire.The sherds measure: 62.8mm length, is 49.4mm width, 12.6mm thick base and 9.9mm side wall and weighs 57.0 grams. The base has a projected diameter of c. 16cm and represents more than 15%.(fragment) 26.9mm length, is 20.4mm width, 5.3mm thick, and weighs3.4 grams. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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