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Description: | Finds from a test-pit excavated by the landowner in June, 2016. The field is currently pastureand lies alongside a local road, it is close to a 16th century farmhouse. Within the test pit was an irregular layer of flints which did not appear to represent either a surface or foundations. Sherds were found both above and below this layer. In addition to the flints and sherds the test pit contained oyster shell, four corroded nails and some amorphous pieces of ceramic building material. Other tests pits excavated in the area failed to produce finds in the same quantityor evidence for the flint layer. In the absence of a pottery specialist the sherds have been described and their sections photographed.Fabric 1Reduced fabric, mid grey colour throughout the sections, some variation in colour between sherds. Fabric hard, quartz filler, intermediate density, well sorted, grain size up to 0.5mm, quartz sand from different sources. Sherd thickness: 8.3mm maximum, 3.5mm minimum, mean thickness 6.5mm. (49 body sherds weighing 187.5g).Rims bases and handles in Fabric 1Rim, thickened, one face angled, the other curved and marked by two circumferential lines. Diameter unknown. 12.0g Sherd with finger-tip modelling, 7.9g Sherd with finger-tip modelling, 11.5g Basal sherd with a flat base Basal sherd from a vessel with a sagging base, some signs of sooting. Diameter unknown. 7.0g Strap handle, dark grey exterior and core, light grey margins, groove containing stabbed lines down outer face, 33.8g. Firing not typical of Fabric 1.Fabric 2Oxidised fabric, orange colour, some sherds having a grey core. This fabric resembles Fabric 1 and it is possible that it represents an oxidised form. Sherd thickness: 7.7mm maximum; 3.3mm minimum; Mean 5.3mm. (20 body sherds weighing 38.6g).Rim and basal sherds in Fabric 2Rim sherd as Fabric 1.1, above. Diameter unknown, 6.2g Rim sherd, thickened by a rounded moulding surrounding its outer face, inner face slightly concave, orange outer face, grey core, Diameter unknown, 20.62g. Basal sherd with sagging base.Glazed sherds in Fabric 2Two body sherds bearing traces of green glaze, diameter unknown, 4.6g and 2.0g.Fabric 3Light brown exteriour, black core, hard fabric, sea shell filler, intermediate to profuse density, poorly sorted, fragments up to 1.5mm. Thickness 7.5mm maximum; 5.0mm minimum, mean 5.8mm. (Four body sherds, 9.18g).Fabric 4Reduced fabric, black throughout, hard, quartz filler, poorly sorted grains, intermediate density, angular. Thickness 5.7mm. (Two body sherds, 3.7g).The sherds are all small and showed, clean, unabraded breaks. While most appear to be of similar date, Fabrics 4 and 5 are likely to be earlier. The localised and incoherent nature of the deposit suggests that was dumped from elsewhere.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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