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VESSEL
Unique ID: CORN-36895F
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Pottery body sherd with concave profile and dark grey fabric throughout, with mica and felspar inclusions, and iron staining and encrustation on the exterior. The fabric is well fired and the exterior has been burnished. The curvature of the sherd suggests that the cooking pot would have had a diameter of about 200 mm.
The sherd appears to be in very well-made gabbroic fabric, well fired and finished. It is from the girth of a cooking pot and remnants of incised lattice around the girth are just detectable. The sherd is of interest because this quality gabbroic pottery does not appear to have been made after the mid 2nd century AD. Moreover incised lattice is not regularly found on the gabbroic Type 4 cooking pots. It looks very much as though this sherd comes from a deliberate copy of a black-burnished cooking pot. As such it joins a group of such gabbroic vessels, copying all kinds of other pots from black-burnished to samian, and belonging only to the first century of Roman occupation later 1st to mid 2nd centuries AD. There is no comprehensive round up of these copies but see Trethurgy (2004) p.125, nos.P138-9 (Henrietta Quinnell pers comm).
Class:
gabbroic
Sub class: cooking pot
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 75
Date to: Circa AD 150
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 51 mm
Width: 47.5 mm
Thickness: 5.5 mm
Weight: 14.9 g
Diameter: 200 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st May 2005 - Wednesday 31st August 2005
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Wheel made
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Sennen (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW3626
Four figure Latitude: 50.07535579
Four figure longitude: -5.69115386
1:25K map: SW3626
1:10K map: SW36SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quinnell, H. | 2004 | Trethurgy: Excavations at Trethurgy Round, St. Austell | Truro | Cornwall County Council | 125, | nos.P138-9 |
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