SOMDOR-C0FC66: Early Medieval to Medieval Cooking Vessel

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VESSEL

Unique ID: SOMDOR-C0FC66

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Three body sherds from unglazed hand made cooking vessels of mid-tenth to early fifteenth century date. The gritty earthenware fabric is tempered with Upper Greensand-derived angular chert and flint (up to 2-3mm), rounded quartz, red mudstone and limestone (up to 1mm). All three sherds have oxidised orange surfaces and a reduced grey core. One sherd is decorated with an applied thumbed clay strip. The cooking vessels were probably fairly locally made. The fabric is similar to material found at Haycroft Farm, Membury, Devon, during excavations in 2000-1 (Allan and Langman 2002). Total weight: 31.53g

Class: Cooking Vessel

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 950
Date to: Circa AD 1450

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 3
Weight: 31.53 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 2005

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Fragment

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Devon (County)
District: East Devon (District)
Parish or ward: Chardstock (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: ST3004
Four figure Latitude: 50.831284
Four figure longitude: -2.995332
1:25K map: ST3004
1:10K map: ST30SW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Gardening
General landuse: Other
Specific landuse: Garden

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Allan, J.P. and Langman, G.	2002	A Group of Medieval Pottery from Haycroft Farm, Membury	Exeter	Devon Archaeological Society

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Recording Institution: SOMDOR
Created: 17 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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