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Description: | A ceramic body sherd from a wheel thrown Roman New Forest metallic colour coated ware vessel dating to the period c. AD 260 - 370. The fragment is asymmetrical in shape with a curving profile and terminates in old breaks on all sides. The profile of the sherd suggests that it may derive from a flask, jug or beaker. The fabric is a dark grey/red in colour and has been coated on both surfaces with a glossy metallic purple/red slip. The outer surface is decorated with a single transverse groove flanked by slight ridges on either side.The sherd measures 54.64mm in length, 33.46mm maximum width, 1.47mm minimum width, is 3.33mm thick and weighs 7.88g.Cf. Fulford 1975. Fulford, M. G., New Forest Roman pottery. Manufacture and distribution, with a corpus of pottery types, British archaeological reports, 17, BAR, Oxford, (1975). | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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