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VESSEL
Unique ID: NLM-F2A388
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Pottery, Samian ware, possibly from the Lezoux kilns, body sherd from a bowl with moulded barbotine decoration of palm and other leaves or feather patterns in a compartment framed by pellets, with adjacent panels occupied by similar but uncertain motifs. The fabric is pale buff with a dull brick red slip inside and out.
Robert Hopkins kindly comments as follows, correcting initial suggestions now relegated to the notes field below: 'This is a bowl made in a mould, the horizontal serrated leaf in the centre can be found on vessels made at Lezoux in the Claudio-Neronian period, however these vessels are usually orange in colour. The alternative is that it's a decorated Arretine vessel (which the Lezoux potters were copying) and possibly pre-conquest in date. The fabric and colour of the slip are consistent [with this]. He subsequently adds: 'This is from a later second century AD Dragendorff 37, in the style of Casurius''. Suggested date: Early Roman,150-200.
Weight: 18.97gms.
Notes:
Members of the North Lincolnshire Pottery Research Group initially kindly suggested this to be a Nene Valley Colour-Coated Ware (NVCC) with a date range of 2nd to 3rd century, which would be of interest as the imitation of Samian wares is thought to have been centred elsewhere in Britain. This reporter considered the rigorous conventional features of the decoration must dictate a date in the earlier part of the available range; further detail was kindly supplied by Robert Hopkins.
Class:
Samian Ware, Lezoux kilns
Sub class: bowl
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 150
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 18.97 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 24th February 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM24795a
Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Wheel made
Decoration style: Figurative
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Rudston
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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