Record ID: YORYM-83FF06
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy vessel of medieval to Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1100 - 1850. The fragment is possibly part of the leg of a cooking vessel such as a cauldron or skillet. The leg is broadly rectangular with a D-shaped section. It is widest at the top, where it would meet the body of the vessel and tapers to a worn break. The object is undecorated. The metal has a delaminated red/green patina and is worn. The fragment is 43.8mm long, 21.6mm wide, 14mm in diameter and weighs 50.5g. These objects are very common metal detector finds and are often found heavily worn and pitted…
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-83A3E3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A ceramic sherd from the rim of a Medieval vessel, dating from about AD 1100 - 1500. The fabric is hard, irregular and buff coloured throughout. It has frequent quartz inclusions that break the surface. The rim is square, forming an external flange, and has a slight lip forming a seating for a lid. The fragment is too small to estimate the diameter. Length: 26.75mm Width: 22.08mm Thickness: 11.56mm Weight: 7.03g
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-81B425
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a copper-alloy vessel, a handle lug and drop handle from a chafing dish of late medieval or early post-medieval date (AD 1400 - AD 1600).  The handle fragment is rectangular in section. It consists of a short bar that passed through the supporting lug, from which the two sides protrude at obtuse angles. The sides curve slightly away from the bar; terminating in historic breaks. One side has a right angle bend before the break. The complete handle would probably have been sub-triangular.  The incomplete support lug for a…
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
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Record ID: SF-46B4A1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of rim-sherd of Roman greyware from a pot.  Weight: 17.15g
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Redgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-46A3F0
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a base sherd of Roman greyware.  .Weight 35.15g
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Redgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-444FC6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment body-sherd of Roman Samian Ware, potentially of a dish or bowl. Weight 26.09g
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Polstead', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-4444E4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment body-sherd of a Roman Greyware vessel. Weight: 9.07g
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Polstead', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-44414A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment rim-sherd of a Roman Greyware storage vessel. Weight:56.48g
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Polstead', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-4431CC
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment rim-sherd of Medieval coarseware.  Thickness: 10.30mm Length: 46.49mm Width: 21.56mm Weight: 11.05g
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Polstead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-436EED
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body sherd of Roman coarse reduced grey ware, possibly from a bead-rim jar of Alice Holt ware. The fabric is grey, hard fired and gritty, with abundant coarse sand inclusions. The exterior has a decorated band of wavy line decoration bound with circumferential lines above and below.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-434241
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An abraded rim sherd of Neolithic grooved ware of Clacton Style, probably from a flat-based jar or bowl. The fabric is dark brown in colour with small angular flint and iron inclusions. The exterior is decorated with triangular panels filled with pressed dots and an incised line around the rim. The interior surface has three circumferential ridges. The original rim diameter was possibly around 150mm.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-430A9B
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An abraded body sherd of probable Neolithic to Early Bronze Age date, possibly in the Peterborough Ware tradition. The fabric is grey-brown in colour with small angular flint and iron inclusions. The exterior has five circumferential bands of pressed twisted cord decoration.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-42EC81
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An abraded body sherd of probable Neolithic to Early Bronze Age date, possibly in the Peterborough Ware tradition. The fabric is grey-brown in colour with small angular flint and iron inclusions. The exterior has two circumferential lines of pressed twisted cord decoration with vertical lines above.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-427FAF
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two fragments from a hand-made Iron Age burnished fineware carinated bowl with a simple rim. The fabric is dark grey, reduced and sand tempered with infrequent small angular grey flint inclusions. The exterior has decoration comprising three circumferential grooves around the upper portion (the lower running around the carination) and, below the change in angle, a series of large triangles comprised of four incised lines running around the lower portion. The original rim diameter was 190mm. There appears to be a circular hole which has been deliberately made (drill…
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-4226C1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large rim sherd of flint-tempered late Bronze Age to early Iron Age handmade carinated coarseware bowl, probably of the Post-Deverel-Rimbury 'Plainware' group dating prior to 800 BC. The fabric is dark grey with frequent poorly sorted angular flint inclusions. The rim is decorated with a border of oblique pressed notches and the original rim diameter would have been around 250mm.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-41F862
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A decorated body sherd from the lower portion of a large bowl of central Gaulish Samian ware, dating to the 2nd to early 3rd century AD. The fabric is hard fired and orange-pink with infrequent dark inclusions and a reddish brown slip. The sherd is curved and the exterior has a moulded scene depicting a semi-clad female figure, possibly Venus, partially draped and seated facing left, with a beaded border of the panel running down the sherd on the right hand side.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-41D1F8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A decorated body sherd from the lower portion of a large bowl of Gaulish samian ware, possibly of Dragondorff form 29 or 37 and dating to the 1st to early 3rd century AD. The fabric is hard fired and orange-pink with a reddish brown slip. The sherd is curved and the exterior has a moulded hunting scene with a hare, running left, large palm fronds to the right and a running border of spirals below. Beneath this is a change in angle to the base.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-41B56B
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A decorated body sherd from a bowl (cf. Dragendorff 37) of south Gaulish samian ware dating to the 1st to early 2nd century AD. The fabric is hard fired and orange-pink with fine limestone inclusions and a reddish brown slip. The exterior has a moulded band of foliate or acanthus decoration on the lower edge. The rim is beaded and would have had an original diameter of around 220mm.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-417ED0
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A decorated body sherd from a bowl or cup of south Gaulish samian ware dating to the 1st to early 2nd century AD. The fabric is hard fired and orange-pink with fine limestone inclusions and a reddish brown slip. The exterior has a moulded hunting scene with a long-eared hound running right; the hound is wearing a rope collar.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-31297E
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a leg of a copper alloy cooking vessel, of medieval to Post-Medieval date, about AD 1100 - 1800. Only a fragment of the leg survives.  It is oval in cross-section and forms the out-turned foot from a small vessel. The top is a diagonal patinated break. The leg does not closely match any of the examples in figure 4 of Butler, Green and Payne (2009) Finds Research Group Datasheet 41. There are traces of sooting on the surfaces. It is Length: 27.81mm, Width: 19.97mm, Thickness: 10.34mm, Weight: 20g.
Created on: Thursday 14th March 2024
Last updated: Saturday 13th April 2024
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