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Record ID: DOR-9A3661
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: 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 : D…
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 10th May 2016
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Record ID: DOR-210C91
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sherd of coarseware. Reduced brownish- grey fabric with abundant fine sand temper. A large countersunk handle from a jar. Handmade. Whilst this vessel is not of the same fabric, Black burnished ware jars of this type (WA type 1) are dated to the late Iron Age to Early Roman periods.
Date: Late Iron Age - Early Roman - 1st century BC to 1st century AD (c. 100 BC - AD 100)
Reference: Seagar-Smith, R, 1993, "Black Burnished Ware and other Southern British coarsewares" in P J Woodward, S M Davies and A H Graham, Excavations at Greyhound Yard, Dorchester 1981-4 . p231
Weight: 77 g
Created on: Tuesday 14th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 15th May 2013
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This findspot is known as 'Fifehead Magdalen', grid reference and parish protected.
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