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Record ID: DOR-EA8D44
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
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-Ro…
Created on: Wednesday 14th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 14th July 2021
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Record ID: DOR-25DAD3
Object type: MORTARIUM
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A sherd of Oxfordshire fineware mortarium. The fabric is hard fired and sandy with sparse small black and red iron ore inclusions, occasional lumps of chalk and is micaceous (Young 1977, 123). It is oxidised orange at the margins with a grey core. The internal surface is covered in rounded pink quartz triturations (up to 2.5 mm). A base sherd. The sherd is abraded. It would originally have been red or brown slipped.
Date: Roman - c. 240 - 400
Weight: 47 g
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 18th November 2015
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This findspot is known as 'Marnhull', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-AF1B95
Object type: MORTARIUM
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
One sherd of Samian ware/terra sigillata (Eastern Gaulish fabric). Oxidised orange fabric with some white flecks. The surfaces are covered with with a brownish-red, thin slip with a matt finish. The brown finish is probably due to a slight mis-firing reduction of the kiln The surfaces are quite abraded and chattered.
A body sherd, probably from a Dragendorf 45 mortarium. The grits are white and quartzitic. The slip overlies them. Wheelmade. The fabric and form date this vessel to the mid to late 2nd century (AD 170- 230) (Webster, P. 1996, Roman Samian Pottery in Britain, CBA Pra…
Created on: Monday 10th January 2011
Last updated: Thursday 19th November 2015
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This findspot is known as 'Bradford Peverell', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-463347
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
1 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 t…
Created on: Tuesday 15th April 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
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