Record ID: IOW-1D4A56
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a coarseware vessel of Medieval date (c. AD 1200 - c. AD 1400). Length: 96.0mm; width: 71.0mm and 8.4mm thick. Weight: 119.28g. The fabric is a mid-buff colour and is tempered with what appears to be crushed flint. The fragment consists of a portion of the rim, the neck and the body. The rim and neck are together slightly everted and the body flares outwards abruptly from the neck. On the outer face, at the junction beteen the neck and the body, there is a finger impressed applied strip. It can be estimated that, when complete, the outer diameter of the rim would have …
Created on: Sunday 26th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 27th May 2010
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Record ID: IOW-87B8A5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a ceramic vessel of probable Iron Age date (800 BC - AD 43). Length: 19.0mm; width: 28.0mm and 11.0mm thick. Weight: 5.87g. This undecorated fragment is part of the rim and is sparsely tempered with relatively large pieces of whitish angular flint. The coarse surface is a brown (Munsell Color 7.5YR 5/4). There is insufficient rim to enable the diameter of the vessel to be estimated. The fragment is in a stable condition and has fresh breaks.
Created on: Saturday 24th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 27th May 2010
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Record ID: IOW-FF6447
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a Portchester Ware ceramic vessel of Late Saxon or Early Medieval date (c. AD 950 – AD 1100). Outer rim diameter (when complete): c. 135.0mm. Weight: 126.88g. This coarse-ware fragment is part of the rim and part of the body. The core of the fabric is dark grey/black and the outer surface is a lighter colour varying from light grey to dark grey. Tempering consists of sparsely distributed pieces of angular flint, very small pieces of rounded sand and occasional very small pieces of shell. The rim is everted in profile and the inner face is concave to accommodate a lid…
Created on: Wednesday 12th December 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-58EBD5
Object type: VESSEL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A base sherd of a black burnished ware vessel of Late Iron Age to Roman date (c. 50 BC – c. AD 250). Length: 30mm; width: 17.1mm and 18.2mm thick. Weight: 9.51g. The fabric is dark grey and is tempered with rounded quartz and crushed angular flint. The breaks are old and abraded.
Created on: Monday 27th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 27th May 2010
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Record ID: NLM-1AC3E6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A small Roman Samian rim sherd probably from a cup. The fine light red fabric has all of the glossy red slip surviving and is plain. The diameter of the vessel would be around 120mm and the weight is 3.13g.
Created on: Wednesday 5th November 2008
Last updated: Monday 30th April 2012
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Record ID: IOW-2D3F38
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A small rim fragment of a Roman Samian ware dish (c. AD 150 – c. AD 200). Length: 37.0mm; width: 9.5mm and 10.1mm thick. Weight: 2.79g. This fragment, with a red slip, has an upturned rim and in form is similar to a Ludowici Tg (Central Gaulish) type dish as illustrated (Hartley 1970. ‘Roman Samian Ware’. 246, fig. 77). The breaks are old and abraded.
Created on: Sunday 30th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 27th May 2010
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Record ID: IOW-CA0B14
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A rim sherd of a Vectis Ware vessel of Roman date (c. AD 43 – c. AD 410). Length: 44.5mm; width; 47.6mm and 11.2mm thick. Weight: 24.79g. An unclassified form, approximately 4% of the rim indicates that the outer diameter of the rim would have been about 12.0cm. All the breaks are old. ‘Vectis ware is hand-made, well finished and relatively hard, being barely scratched with the fingernail. Its internal and external surface is partly reddish-yellow (Munsell Color 5YR 6/6), which is the colour yielded by a characteristic oxidised crust which is usually weakly visible due t…
Created on: Thursday 1st January 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-CA2F62
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A rim sherd of a Vectis Ware vessel of Roman date (c. AD 43 – c. AD 150). Length: 68.0mm; width: 36.7mm and 14.8mm thick. Weight: 54.45g. Probably a form 10 vessel with an everted rim, dating to the late first to early second century (Tomalin 1987, ‘Roman Wight: A Guide Catalogue’. 32 and 38). Approximately 12.5% of the rim indicates that the outer diameter of the rim would have been about 17.0cm. All the breaks are old. ‘Vectis ware is hand-made, well finished and relatively hard, being barely scratched with the fingernail. Its internal and external surface is pa…
Created on: Thursday 1st January 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-CA4D04
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A rim sherd of a Vectis Ware vessel of Roman date (c. AD 100 – c. AD 350). Length: 54.0mm; width: 34.0mm and 12.8mm thick. Weight: 22.56g. Probably a form 13 vessel with a cavetto rim, dating to the early second to early fourth century (Tomalin 1987, ‘Roman Wight: A Guide Catalogue’. 33 and 38). Approximately 4.0% of the rim indicates that the outer diameter of the rim would have been about 18.0cm. All the breaks are old. ‘Vectis ware is hand-made, well finished and relatively hard, being barely scratched with the fingernail. Its internal and external surface is p…
Created on: Thursday 1st January 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-CA65A1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A base sherd of a Vectis Ware vessel of Roman date (c. AD 43 – c. AD 410). Length: 25.1mm; width: 24.2mm and 10.0mm thick. Weight: 8.78g. All the breaks are old. ‘Vectis ware is hand-made, well finished and relatively hard, being barely scratched with the fingernail. Its internal and external surface is partly reddish-yellow (Munsell Color 5YR 6/6), which is the colour yielded by a characteristic oxidised crust which is usually weakly visible due to a more general darkening of the final surface burnishing. The colour produced by burnishing is usually very dark grey (Munsell C…
Created on: Thursday 1st January 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.