DOR-9A3661: Sherd of Black Burnished ware

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Unique ID: DOR-9A3661

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

A sherd of Black Burnished ware 1. Poole/Wareham fabric. Reduced dark grey with slight orange oxidisation at the margins. Abundant rounded quartz sand temper. A rim sherd from a jar with in-turned rim (Wessex Archaeology Type 6). There is an incised groove externally below the rim and the remnant of an "eyebrow" motif on the shoulder. Handmade. Abraded.
Date: Late Iron to Early Roman - c. 100 BC to AD 100
Weight: 25.4 g

See Davies, S and Seagar-Smith, R, 1993, Black Burnished Ware Type Series - The Roman Pottery from Excavations at Greyhound Yard, Dorchester, Dorset Dorchester : DNH&AS, page 258 - 260 Fig. 136, No. 26

Class: Jar

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa 100 BC
Date to: Circa AD 100

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Weight: 25.4 g

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: SCMS 016473

Materials and construction

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

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: West Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Portesham (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SY6386
Four figure Latitude: 50.67248022
Four figure longitude: -2.52496504
1:25K map: SY6386
1:10K map: SY66NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Character undetermined

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Seager Smith, R. and Davies, S.M.	1993	Black Burnished Ware Type Series - The Roman Pottery from Excavations at Greyhound Yard, Dorchester, Dorset 1981-4	Dorchester	DNH&AS	p. 260, Fig. 136	No. 26

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Recording Institution: DOR
Created: 7 years ago
Updated: 7 years ago

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