Record ID: GLO-FD6500
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Earthen ware pottery fragment length 86mm, width 96mm, thickness 15mm, weight 117.8g. Reduced dark grey fabric with frequent mica, occasional black grog tempering <2mm, infrequent lime stone inclusions. Grey core, buff exterior. Straight side walls, there is a lip below the rim which has an undulating outside edge and stabbed decoration on the top edge. The vessel would have had a sagging base. this type of vessel would have been made in the north Gloucestershire/Worcestershire area and dates to the 11th-12th century.
Created on: Monday 25th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-D1CF77
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Frankish Wheel-Thrown Vessel Early Medieval, late 6th-mid 7th century Height 257mm, diameter 132mm A wheel-thrown pottery bottle with ovoid body, narrow neck and everted rim rounded on top. The bottle has a concave base and a maximum girth around the mid part of the body. Height is 257mm, maximum body diameter is 132mm. Diameter at the mouth is 62mm, at the base 79mm. The vessel weights 956g. Grey sand tempered fabric, the sand grains appears to be sub-angular, single sub-angular stone in the wall of the fabric. The quality and hardness of the fabric sugges…
Created on: Tuesday 20th July 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.