HESH-13CC4C: Iron Age Pottery / ceramic vessel

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VESSEL

Unique ID: HESH-13CC4C

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Eardisland History and Heritage Group

Eardisland Excavation 2013

Site Summary: Finds made during excavation of a single trench 16m x 1.25m across crop marks on cultivated land.

Site number: RHYD 13

Context number: 004

One rim sherd of pottery possibly from an everted -rim jar.( pers com Jane Evans )

The fragments measure:

1: 32.2mm in length, 44.4 mm width, 10.3 mm thick and weighs 16 grams

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Sherd specific details:

Fabric Type: Palaeozoic limestone tempered ware. Worcetershire Classification: B1 Fabric 4.1.Beckford form 10

Fabric Condition: A soft fabric with abundant angular fragments of white limestone some of which have disolved ,creating vesicles (surface voids ) up to 1.0mm.and some rare rounded quartz.

Firing Condition: black throughout.

Surface Texture: It has a burnished outer surface and at top of the rim..

Inclusions: Abundant angular inclusions of white limestone and rare rounded quartz inclusions.

Rim: Represents 17% of circumference - Diameter: 12cm (120mm)

Condition of sherds: Unabradedwith a well preserved surface.

Class: Palaeozoic tempered limestone ware. (Beckford Form 10 )

Subsequent actions

Current location of find: Hereford Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Donated to a museum

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 50

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Weight: 16 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st September 2013 - Thursday 31st October 2013

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Other reference numbers

SMR reference number: 10386
Other reference: RHYD_13_004
Museum accession number: 2014-61

Materials and construction

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

Spatial metadata

Region: West Midlands (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
District: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Eardisland (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SO4358
Four figure Latitude: 52.21724888
Four figure longitude: -2.83573833
1:25K map: SO4358
1:10K map: SO45NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Controlled archaeological investigation (stratified)
Current location: Hereford Museum
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Operations to a depth greater than 0.25m

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

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