Record ID: DOR-6E3C45
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1 sherd of pottery. Poorly fired, largely reduced brown-grey fabric with some oxidisation to the surface on the interior of the vessel (buff coloured). The fabric is tempered with poorly sorted iron stone, flint sand and calcareous pieces (up to 4.5 mm). The sherd is from the base of a handmade jar. The base is flat and plain. Date: Iron Age - 800 BC to AD 100
Created on: Wednesday 23rd July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-E47998
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two rim sherds from 1st century AD large, round barrel shaped storage jars or bowls. The rims are variously described as 'flat topped' beaded rims (Sunter & Woodward, 1986, 87)or 'flattened, tapering, triangular' rims (Seager Smith, 1993, 231). The fabrics are orange in colour with buff-orange to grey core and coarse and sandy in texture. They are similar to Gussage All Saints fabric type C, thought to originate in the Wareham/Poole Harbor region in the 1st Century AD (Wainwright, 1979, 50). In fact examples of this rim form are included as Black Burnished Ware from excavations at Ower…
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne Kingston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-FB7105
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base sherd from ceramic jar. Reduced grey brown fabric with abundant fine sand and sparse large, crushed flint temper (up to 7 mm) and occasional voids. The base has a crudely formed footring. Fairly abraded. Identified by Lorraine Mepham as Early to Middle Iron Age.
Created on: Monday 27th June 2005
Last updated: Sunday 9th October 2016
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Record ID: SOMDOR-FC2312
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim sherd from ceramic jar. Reduced grey brown fabric with sparse sand temper and frequent irregular voids where larger pieces of temper (up to 4mm and probably shell pieces) have leached out. The fabric is very light weight and friable. The form is a simple, slightly uneven beaded rim. Fairly abraded. Identified by Lorraine Mepham as Early to Middle Iron Age.
Created on: Monday 27th June 2005
Last updated: Sunday 9th October 2016
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SOMDOR-FC3918
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base sherd from ceramic jar. Reduced grey brown fabric with moderate sand temper and occasional irregular voids where larger pieces of temper have leached out (up to 4mm and probably shell pieces). Flat base. Fairly abraded. Identified by Lorraine Mepham as Early to Middle Iron Age.
Created on: Monday 27th June 2005
Last updated: Sunday 9th October 2016
No spatial data available.

Record ID: PUBLIC-CB2D13
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An earthenware pot sherd of possible Iron Age date. Internally, the fabric is grey, with an orange exterior and has been tempered with sand/quartz which is ill sorted. The sherd is soft ( almost soap like) and is well abraded. Probably hand made and possibly a storage vessel.
Created on: Sunday 27th April 2014
Last updated: Saturday 14th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr Wimborne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-8D9853
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Iron Age copper alloy probable vessel escutcheon, dating to the Late Iron Age (c. 150 - 100 BC). A bi-lobed escutcheon with a stub of a projecting handle. It consists of of two oval lobes, each with a hooked projection at the outer edge. Both have a large circular attachment hole set slightly off centre. Both these holes are filled with corrosion product. One has a copper alloy rich material and the other is filled with iron corrosion which also covers the front of the lobe. Projecting from the the lobes is a narrowed stub, possibly of a handle, which is decorated with a…
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 18th December 2019
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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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