2024-03-28T22:53:39+00:00https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/jsonhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/xmlhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/rsshttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/atomhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/kmlhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/geojsonhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/qrcodehttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results4120Dorset100CountyCast2Metal detector53DF91.jpg143622005From a paper mapGood1146791RO9.1DistrictProbablySOMDOR14539410Stoke Abbottx4121837.32West Dorset106272011-02-24T13:16:32ZReturned to finderSouth WestCircaA cast copper alloy Roman vessel foot, probably from a bucket. These items were used in sets of three to protect the bases of Roman cast or sheet bronze vessels, in particular buckets (Jackson 1990, 46). The foot has a slightly curving rectangular shape, which would have corresponded to the size of the base of the vessel it supported. In this case the bucket's base must have been around 18 cm in diameter. There are two opposing kidney-shaped perforations through the centre of the object and at each end is a cut away stepped notch. One side of the object is flat, but the other has a longitudinal concave depression, in between the two perforations and the indentations at each end. On the latter (upper) side there are traces of the lead-tin solder which would have been used to affix the foot to the main body of the vessel. The slightly convex (outer) edge is decorated with an engraved running wave design, with annulets in the centre of the free spaces created by the waves, which gives the appearance of a series of human eyes. The running wave may be in imitation of guilloche, a motif commonly used in Roman mosaics.Daniel Pett57.737-2.796103SOMDOR-540097109302Foot1VESSELST4401finds-1093021121.856SOMDOR-53DF9143images/npayne/278382001434540080151C32005-10-06T15:17:28ZProbablyx4121812005-08-04T23:00:00Z050.8058352ROMANCopper alloy41427RO1Circa21http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ROMANCertainCivil Parish2022-07-14T07:07:12.351ZEarlyDorset100CountyHand madeIRON AGE1LateChance find during metal detecting7EEA46a.jpg1436220041Linear14557BA9.38DistrictCertain1SOMDOR14451-800Compton Abbasx13712367136.474North Dorset2019-12-16T12:11:21ZReturned to finder1South West
One small pottery body sherd, possibly from a collared urn. Hand-made and thick-walled. Largely black, reduced fabric with an oxidised brownish layer on the external surface. The fabric is tempered with fine sand with some larger pieces of grog, flint and other stone (up to 3mm). The exterior surface retains a band of vertical thumb impressed decoration (4 impressions on this small sherd). Very little abrasion.
Ciorstaidh Hayward Trevarthen3-2.200718SOMDOR-7DD3D5659501IRON AGEVESSELST8618finds-6595026SOMDOR-7EEA46Fragment-1100x13992images/caht/1281880014097F13F0106C32004-05-04T20:38:39ZCertainx1371282004-01-14T00:00:00Z1650.961251BRONZE AGE41427BA113http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/BRONZE AGECertainCivil Parish2022-07-14T07:06:46.338ZEarlyDorset1CountyHand madeEARLY MEDIEVAL1LateChance find during metal detectingDOREA8D44.jpg14362Centred on field1144931RODistrictCertain1DOR14539460Charminsterx4121854West Dorset105392021-07-14T17:26:20ZReturned to finder1South WestCirca
One sherd of coarseware. The fabric is reduced dark grey at the core with oxidised margins (orange on the exterior and buff on the interior). There is abundant rounded quartz sand temper with occasional iron rich pieces. The surfaces appear wiped. A slightly everted rim sherd from a thick-walled jar. The rim has a thumb-impressed "pie-crust" exterior edge. The form is recorded in the Wessex Archaeology Black Burnished Ware type series as WA Type 12 (Seagar-Smith & Davies, 1993, p. 232-233, Figure 123).
VESSEL (38,638)
Date: Late Roman to early Early Medieval (Post-Roman) c. AD 330 - 460
Weight: 54 g
This is probably a sherd of what is now known as South East Dorset Orange Wiped Ware (SEDOWW), which was manufactured in the same areas of South East Dorset and from much the same materials as Black Burnished Ware, and can be dated to the middle third of the 4th to the middle third of the 5th centuries (Gerrard 2010 p 306). Type 12 jars are a common form in this fabric which has a limited distribution (largely confined to South and East Dorset and concentrated around Dorchester) (ibid p 306) and have been noted as having a date range of the late 3rd to mid 5th centuries (Seagar-Smith & Davies, ibid, p. 233)
References:
Gerrard, J, 2010 "Finding the Fifth Century: A Late Fourth- and Early Fifth-Century Pottery Fabric from South-East Dorset" in Britannia, Volume 41, pages 293-312
Seagar-Smith, R and Davies, S M 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 .
Sally Worrell53-2.44081836DOR-ED1BD91032274Black Burnished Ware type series as WA Type 121jarSCMS 018065EARLY MEDIEVALVESSELSY6995finds-10322741210DOR-EA8D44Fragment330x41022images/caht/11148548PAS60EEA8D400143E32021-07-14T10:05:24ZCertainx4121884750.75376363ROMANCeramic41427RO1Circa21http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ROMANCertainCivil Parish2022-07-14T07:16:11.219Zfinds-215236215236DOR-463347VESSELMEDIEVAL1 large sherd of pottery. It has a reduced dark grey core and oxidised buff surfaces. The fabric is tempered with abundant, fairly coarse sand. The sherd is part of a strap handle and rim from a jug/pitcher. The handle attaches to the upper surface of the rim, rising slightly and tapering before curving downward into a thick sub-rectangular section before it is broken (this break is more recent than those on the vessel rim). The upper surface of the handle is stab decorated with four short slashes at the rim and two longer ones as the handle narrows before the break. On the underside the handle has been attached with a fairly rough strip of clay pressed between the handle and the wall of the vessel. Handmade. There is some abrasion to the breaks on the rim, but the break across the handle is fresh and unabraded. Identified by Lorraine Mepham as a fabric from South East Wiltshire/East Dorset kilns. Date: Medieval. Late 12th to early 14th centuryJug/Pitcher292912115013503DOR2006-09-10T00:00:00ZEntry 0216842008-04-15T09:28:55Z2023-08-02T15:28:23Z4600148046747013C61518341427143621441714451DorsetNorth DorsetWinterborne KingstonSY879750.772435-2.18572610DOR-4674B2Ceramic10539Hand madeFragmentMEDIEVALx14221EarlyMiddleMEDIEVALx14221x14221Fieldwalking463347.jpg190086images/caht/South WestCertain12023-08-02T14:28:23.421Z