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Unique ID: HESH-FD3077
Object type certainty: Certain
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Eardisland History and Heritage Group
Eardisland Excavation 2000-2010
Site Summary: Finds were made during the excavation of a mound in the grounds adjacent to the dwelling: Burton Court Eardisland. The trench in which the majority of artefacts were found measured 5 metres by 3 metres. The stratified assemblage of pottery is of regional importance being especially well preserved and evidence for a domestic non-castle medieval site dating from the twelfth to early thirteenth centuries (1100-1250)
Site number: BC 01
Sector: A/B
Context number: Unstratified
Four rim sherds of Worcester Ware HER (Hereford) C1 - probably produced at Hanley Castle, Worcestershire. from hand made cooking pots
The largest sherd measures:
27.8mm high, 53.0mm width, 15.1mm thick at rim, 6.8mm across the wall; it weighs 22.7 grams.
The rim represents 7% of circumference and suggests a diameter of 26cm
The smallest sherd measures:
22.2mm high, 38.2mm width, 11.9mm thick at rim, 3.8mm across the wall; it weighs 10.0 grams.
The rim represents 6% of circumference and suggests a diameter of 20cm
The bulk weight is 58.3 grams
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Sherd specific details:
Fabric Type: Worcester Ware HER (Hereford) C1
Fabric Condition: A fine hard fabric with inclusions
Firing Condition:
1. Dark grey to black throughout
2. Dark grey throughout
Surface texture:
1. Exterior: smooth, no sooting; Interior: smooth, no sooting or limescale
2. Exterior: slightly rough, no sooting; Interior: slightly rough, no sooting or limescale
Condition of sherd.
1. Very good
2. Poor
Projected Rim Diameters
3. The rim represents 8.5% of circumference and suggests a diameter of 18cm
4. The rim represents 5% of circumference and suggests a diameter of 22cm
Inclusions: Large common fragments of light - mid grey and white angular grits (max 3.0mm - 0.5mm), Sparse angular quartz (less than 0.1mm), Angular mid-grey - white soft limestone / clacite, small sparse mid grey - mid brown coloured stone (ironstone?)
Glaze / Decoration: None
Class: Worcester Ware HER (Hereford) C1
Rim Type:
1. Flat topped and everted
2. Flat topped and everted
Comments: Dr. Alan Vince - identified this as Worcester Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1. and states that this was probably locally produced at Worcester in the 12th - 14th centuries. From the beginning of the 13th century the potters at this production site began to use the potters wheel and also began to use glaze, even on cooking pots. No wheel-thrown or glazed examples were discovered within the samples sent in two batches from the investigations at Burton Court (C1 fabric = 27 and 82 sherds). All of ten sherds submitted are likely to be of cooking pots and many have both sooting on the outside of the vessel and off-light limescale on the interior. indicating their use in boiling water. Fourteen of the sherds were rims, all of an everted form with an inturned lip and some of the rims had rounded profiles whilst others with flat top. There is no known chronological difference between the two types. Some of these vessels were quite small, in the order of 200mm diameter, whereas others are similar in size to the Malvern Chase fabric vessels. Some of these maybe of early - mid 12th century in date and all are likely to date to the 12th rather than the 13th century.
Vessels of this fabric include handmade / formed cooking pots with club rims and sagging bases. The everted rim cooking pots were hand formed vessels with roughly cylindrical bodies. The rims have flat tops or are thickened and the bases are also sagged. Most vessels seem to have been smoothed on a turn table but some may have been wheelthrown.
Documentary and archaeological evidence suggests that this ware was produced at Worcester from the early 12th to 13th centuries. In Hereford, it is much more common in the 12th rather than the 13th centuries.
Note: Vince notes that the most common inclusion within this fabric is white quartz mainly measuring between 0.1-0.4mm across but can occur up to 1.2mm.
Class: VESSEL
Sub class: Rim
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1550
Quantity: 4
Weight: 58.3 g
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Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SO4257
Four figure Latitude: 52.20815492
Four figure longitude: -2.85020209
1:25K map: SO4257
1:10K map: SO45NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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