VESSEL

Report by J D Hill: Thirteen medium to large sherds from a single reduced grey ware jar were recovered with the hoard. These sherds came from the same vessel that appears to have been only recently broken. The sherds include more than half of the rim of the vessel and part of the upper vessel wall. This is unusual, as in most coin hoard cases only parts from the base and lower vessel wall are recovered. No base sherds were recovered with this hoard. Weighing 632 g (Mean Sherd Weight 48.6 g), these sherds come from a jar with a rim diameter of about 8 cm and a maximum girth of about 16-18 cm. The vessel was made from a hard grey fabric with a dark grey smoothed exterior; smooth fracture; dense fabric with common (15%) fine opaque subrectangular grains (0.1 mm across), rare black to dark brown clay pellet (?) inclusions with a modal size of 0.5- 1 mm. The inside of the pot is stained green with a bronze patina due to contact with the coins. This shows that the coins were originally contained inside the jar. Grey ware vessels were a common coarse ware made throughout Roman Britain.