Sherd; ceramic base sherd of Roman date. Fabric is a dark grey (almost black) burnished to black at the surfaces. Temper includes moderate sub-angular quartz, sparse to moderate angular calcite and sparse black iron grits. It has a hackly fracture and a pimply surface. The sherd is a fragment of flat-bottomed dish or platter, from the join with the vertical edge. Locally produced black-burnished wares occur frequently in South Yorkshire contexts, in addition to the regular BB1 and BB2 imports from Dorset. The fabric type and colouration is more suggestive of the Rossington Bridge black-burnished ceramics produced in the Doncaster region than of the Dorset kilns, despite the existence of BB1 fabric at the same site: YORYM-BFCBB9.
Probable Rossington-Bridge Black-Burnished Ware
AD150-410
The vessel fragment is 25.4mm long, 17.1mm wide, 5.9mm thick and weighs 3.1g.
Buckland, P. C., Magilton, J. R., and Dobly, M. J. 1980. "The Roman Pottery Industries of South Yorkshire: A Review", Britannia 11. 145-164
Monaghan, J. 1997. Roman Pottery from York (The Archaeology of York 16/8). York: York Archaeological Trust. pp: 893
Report by
Adam Parker
Assistant Curator of Archaeology, Yorkshire Museum
Sherd; ceramic base sherd of Roman date. Fabric is a dark grey (almost black) burnished to black at the surfaces. Temper includes moderate sub-angular quartz, sparse to moderate angular calcite and sparse black iron grits. It has a hackly fracture and a pimply surface. The sherd is a fragment of flat-bottomed dish or platter, from the join with the vertical edge. Locally produced black-burnished wares occur frequently in South Yorkshire contexts, in addition to the regular BB1 and BB2 imports from Dorset. The fabric type and colouration is more suggestive of the Rossington Bridge black-burnished ceramics produced in the Doncaster region than of the Dorset kilns, despite the existence of BB1 fabric at the same site: YORYM-BFCBB9.
Probable Rossington-Bridge Black-Burnished Ware
AD150-410
The vessel fragment is 25.4mm long, 17.1mm wide, 5.9mm thick and weighs 3.1g.
Buckland, P. C., Magilton, J. R., and Dobly, M. J. 1980. "The Roman Pottery Industries of South Yorkshire: A Review", Britannia 11. 145-164
Monaghan, J. 1997. Roman Pottery from York (The Archaeology of York 16/8). York: York Archaeological Trust. pp: 893
Report by
Adam Parker
Assistant Curator of Archaeology, Yorkshire Museum
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Ceramic
Primary material of object
Fragment
17.1
Width
25.4
Length
5.9
Thickness
3.1
Weight
By Attribution 3.0
The period from for the object
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0150
0410
Method of manufacture
Classification of object