DOR-6DCBD1: 6DCBD1. Sherd of Iron Age pottery

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Unique ID: DOR-6DCBD1

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

A single large sherd of pottery. A body sherd from a handmade jar. The fabric is reduced and dark grey with moderate rounded quartz sand temper and very occasional larger inclusions (one of which is a piece of chert 14 mm in length). The exterior surface is coarsely burnished and there are occasional burnish lines and scratches on the interior surface. Lorraine Mepham of Wessex Archaeology has identified this as early to middle Iron Age and of a fabric type found on other sites in Wiltshire. Date: Early to Middle Iron Age- c. 800 to 400 BC Weight: 110 g

Class: Jar

Chronology

Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: 800 BC
Date to: 400 BC

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Weight: 110 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 11th May 2008

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Materials and construction

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

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Manningford (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SU1457
Four figure Latitude: 51.311944
Four figure longitude: -1.800525
1:25K map: SU1457
1:10K map: SU15NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Other chance find
General landuse: Grassland, Heathland

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Recording Institution: DOR
Created: 15 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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