Record ID: DOR-6FEE76
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Nine sherds of Medieval pottery. Irregularly fired fabric ranging from dark grey to orange, tempered with, poorly sorted, common fragments of quartz sand, calcareous stone and flint (up to 6mm) and finer sand. Some pieces have large voids, probably from leeching out of the calcareous component. Seven body sherds, one base sherd and one rim sherd. The base is slightly sagging and the rim is flat-topped, in-turned and has an external bead. The rim and base are from cooking jars, and several of the body sherds sre likely to be from such vessels. Some pieces are externally sooted and and …
Created on: Monday 6th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-706927
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two sherds of Medieval pottery. Reduced mid-grey fabric with slight reddish-brown oxidisation on the exterior. Tempered with poorly sorted, moderate fragments of quartz sand, calcareous stone and flint (up to 3 mm), common finer sand and rare iron oxides. Both are undiagnostic body sherds. Hand-made. The sherds are mainly small and are not abraded. Date: 11th to 12th century (pers comm: Lorraine Mepham) Weight: 14 g
Created on: Monday 6th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-71ACA1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Nine sherds of Medieval pottery. Irregularly fired orange-buff/dark grey hard fabric. Tempered with abundant, fairly well sorted quartz sand (
Created on: Monday 6th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-720F55
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Five sherds of Medieval pottery. Hard orange-buff fabric with occasional pale grey reduction at the core. Fine tempered with abundant well sorted fine quartz sand (
Created on: Monday 6th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-BF5356
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of rim from a copper alloy vessel. This is probably a rim from a cauldron or similar vessel. The rim is pointed with a bevelled interior face and flat exterior. The vessel wall is thinned from the rim. The interior surface appears smoothed whilst the exterior is rougher and covered in horzontal scratches. There are traces of sooting on the exterior. Late Medieval to post medieval. Possibly 15th to 18th century. Dimensions: 46.5 mm x 42.2 mm x 6.67 mm Weight: 52.35 g
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-BF7A05
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment from a copper alloy vessel. This is probably from a cauldron or similar vessel. The rim is incomplete, but is everted and thinned from the vessel body. The interior surface appears smoothed whilst the exterior is rougher and covered in horizontal scratches. There are traces of sooting on the exterior. Late Medieval to post medieval. Possibly 15th to 18th century. Dimensions: 44.02 mm x 53.36 mm x 3.83 mm Weight: 42.24 g
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-BFC323
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment from a copper alloy vessel. This is a large vessel leg probably from a cauldron. The fragment consists of the foot and part of the leg, which is has an irregular break at the top. The leg is tri-lobate in section with a rounded, prominent ridge running up the centre of the front of the leg. The back of the leg is flat. The foot projects forwards from the leg and has a triangular profile. The base of the foot apears mis-cast and is slightly hollowed and rough.The surface of the leg is quite pitted and bumpy. This also indicates mis-casting and poor finishing. Late medieval to …
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2013
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Record ID: DOR-C00AB8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probably medieval lead mend for a pottery vessel. An irregularly shaped piece lead with one large plate and one smaller. The larger plate is sub-triangular with a smoothed surface and a slightly chamfered edge around it (5.55 mm thick). The smaller plate is much thinner (1.87 mm thick) and also roughly triangular. It has a more uneven surface. At one side the plates appear to be joined and there are also two thin bars of lead joining the together at another. Where there is a gap between the plates there is a remnant of thin-walled pottery between them. This appears to have a reddish-…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-1A3786
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1 sherd of earthernware pottery with abundant fine sand (> 1 mm) temper and occasional haematite pieces (up to 1 mm). The exterior and interior surfaces are oxidised to a pale orangey pink whilst the core is buff in colour. There is some sooting on the exterior surface. A damaged rim sherd from near the rim, probably from a jar. Heavily abraded. Probably 13th to early 14th century coarseware from East Dorset industries. Weight: 15 g
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-1A5486
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1 sherd of earthernware pottery . A reddish brown and dark grey coarseware with abundant, coarse, rounded sand temper (up to 1.5 mm). The fabric is largely reduced black to brown apart from the internal surface which is oxidised reddish orange. Slightly abraded. A thin walled body sherd, probably from a cooking jar. Handmade. Date: 12th to 13th century coarseware from the East Dorset/South Wiltshire industries. Weight: 3 g
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-869351
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy vessel foot. A plain rectilinear L-shaped foot from a tripod vessel (skillet or cauldron). The casting is poor with inclusions and imperfections resulting in a large oval recess on the underside of the foot, where there is also sooting. Date: Post-medieval - 16th to 17th century Dimensions: 21.33 mm x 24.05 mm x 24.55 Weight: 32.00 g
Created on: Wednesday 29th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-86C6E5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy vessel foot. A plain semi-circular foot from a tripod vessel (skillet or cauldron). The casting is poor with many inclusions and imperfections resulting several voids. There is also sooting over mich of the surface. Date: Post-medieval - 16th to 17th century Dimensions: 34.94 mm x 46.93 mm x 21.98 mm Weight: 92.04 g
Created on: Wednesday 29th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-836E91
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy skillet leg. A long, D-sectioned leg. The convex front has cast decoration of a transverse ridge towards the top of the leg and three cast longitudinal ridges extending from the top to the base. DAte: Late Medieval to Post-medieval late 15th to 17th Dimensions: 58.4 mm x 29.01 x 16.2 mm Weight: 101.55 g
Created on: Thursday 22nd January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-8396C5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy cauldron leg. A large triangular sectioned foot with a raised central rib on the front. Date: Late Medieval to Post-medieval late 15th to 17th Dimensions: 46.01 mm x 49.02 mm x 27.30 mm Weight: 174.01 g
Created on: Thursday 22nd January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-B02176
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1 sherd of oxidised coarseware. Pale orange fabric with abundant fine sand temper and sparse flecks of haematite. The exterior has patchy green glaze. A rim sherd from a jug with a slight neck and a plain, lid-seated rim. There is an applied strip externally below the rim with thumb decoration. Date: Late medieval to early post-medieval – 15th to 16th century Weight: 27 g (Lorraine Mepham, pers. comm.)
Created on: Thursday 5th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-11E8D5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sherd of unglazed earthern ware. The fabric is oxidised orange brown with reddish margins and is tempered with abundant fine sand and occasional iron ore pieces. There is a single hole pireced from the exterior of the vessel before firing. This is possibly a strainer. Date: Medieval - c. 1200 - 1500 Weight: 9 g
Created on: Monday 17th May 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 19th May 2010
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Record ID: DOR-388FF1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
I sherd of glazed earthernware. A fragment of pottery handle. The fabric is grey-white with some slight, orange oxidisation at the margins below the glaze. It is tempered with abundant, fairly fine sand and has no other visible inclusions. The handle is decorated on its upper surface with a line of impressed four-quadrant, circular stamps, two and a half of them on the remaining fragment. The handle is unevenly coated with a yellow-green lead glaze.This handle may have come from a jug, a handled jar or a spouted pitcher. Possibly East Dorset/South Wiltshire pottery. Stamped decoration…
Created on: Wednesday 19th May 2010
Last updated: Thursday 10th March 2011
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Record ID: DOR-EC3821
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One small sherd of glazed pottery. The core is pale pinkish grey and the margins are reduced dark grey. The temper is well sorted abundant quartz sand, visisble on the surfaces. The exterior surface retains traces of green glaze. A body sherd, probably from a jug. The sherd is abraded. The vessel was handmade. Date: Medieval - 13th to 15th century Weight: 4 g
Created on: Thursday 14th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2011
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Record ID: DOR-858F35
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast, copper alloy leg probably from a copper alloy vessel. It is sub-circular with a paw-like lobed shape at the front (five lobes, one large in the centre with two smaller each side). At the back is a wide, vertical groove. the underside is uneven. The top surface is higher at one side than the other, probably to allow for attachment to a vessel. Date: Post-medieval Dimensions: 24.15 mm x 36.16 mm x 24.87 mm Weight: 115.97 g
Created on: Saturday 12th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-C0E207
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
3 sherds of medieval pottery. Externally glazed earthernware. A reduced pale to mid grey fabric with surface oxidisation. Abundant very fine sand temper with occasional small grog pieces. The external glaxe is a dark brownish green and patchily applied. The group comprises: One glazed body sherd, one rim sherd and one case sherd. All the sherds are quite thin walled. The rim has an external bead and an internal lip and is probably from a small flagon (rim diameter 45 to 50 mm). The base sherd is also from a small diameter vessel (base diameter circa 60mm) hand has thumb-impressed fril…
Created on: Tuesday 24th November 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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