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VESSEL

Unique ID: IOW-2D3F92

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

An incomplete New Forest Ware jug of Roman date. Approximate diameter of body girth, when complete, would have been about 160-170mm. Weight 214.88g. This upper part of a ceramic wheel-made vessel has a complete rim, a handle and about half of the body. The rim is slightly everted and has an outer diameter of 54.0mm. The neck flares outwards gently towards the body. The strap-handle has a maximum width of 15.5mm and joins the main part of the vessel just below the rim and just below the neck. The outer surface has metallic purplish sheen as aresult of being in a marine environment (not the remains of a purple slip). The neck is decorated with fairly equally spaced vertical burnished lines. These are about 5.0mm apart. The body is decorated with roughly horizontal circumferential burnished lines that merge together. The inner face of the vessel is matt grey (Munsell Color Grey 2.5YR 5/N5/). The surviving part of this vessel is in good condition and all the breaks are fresh. The vessel was found in the inter-tidal zone and has the remains of marine organic growth attached to the outer and inner surfaces.

Notes:

Similar vessels have been published. See, Fulford 1975. "New Forest Pottery". 96-98, fig. 33, refs. 20.1-20.6. British Archaeologiacl Reports 17. Oxford: BAR.

Find of note status

This has been noted as an interesting find by the recorder.

Class: Jug
Sub class: New Forest Ware

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 260
Date to: Circa AD 370

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Weight: 214.88 g
Diameter: 160 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 15th August 2006

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: IOW2006-73

Materials and construction

Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Wheel made
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Burnished

Spatial metadata

Region: South East (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
District: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Isle of Wight

Spatial coordinates

Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Other chance find
Discovery circumstances: Found whilst waking on the beach near extreme low water
General landuse: Coastland
Specific landuse: Inter-tidal

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Fulford, M.G.	1975	New Forest Roman Pottery: Manufacture and Distribution, with a Corpus of Pottery Types	Oxford	British Archaeological Reports 17	96-98, fig. 33	20.1-20.6

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

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