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Record ID: DOR-58AC58
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One sherd of unglazed earthernware. The fabric is reduced grey at the core with a patchily oxidised red exterior surface. The dense temper is pink and white quartz sand with occasional iron stone pieces and voids up to 2mm. The temper is visible at the surface indicating the surfaces were wiped. An undiagnostic body sherd. Handmade. Heavily abraded. Date: Probably Medieval - c. 1200 - 1400 Weight: 5 g
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Friday 22nd June 2018
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Record ID: KENT-589236
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small wheel thrown ceramic juglette likely from Iberia dating from the 17th-19th centuries in date. Description: The jug is quite small with a long body and high low angle shoulder and a narrow neck. The rim is beaded and very minorly flared, the pinching to form the spout is very subtle. The base is flat and very slightly concave. The body has an incised concentric decorative pattern likely incised on the wheel, albeit a very simple one. This decoration start on the upper part of the body finishing on the shoulder. The handle has been applied after the decoration and is pinched,…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
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Record ID: NARC-56CA29
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Handle of Medieval date (AD 1270-1350). The object is a right-angled drop handle from a vessel. The remaining arm has a rectangular shaped shaft in cross section. Extending from one end of the shaft at a right angle is a vertical arm which terminates with a dog headed terminal. The arm has a faceted sub-circular cross section. There is a freely movable attachment loop with projecting shoulders is located in the space before the zoomorphic terminal. There is an acorn knop placed at the top corner of the shaft above the point where the arm would have the…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
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Record ID: NARC-56BDC1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Vessel leg of Medieval date (AD 1250-1700). The object is a pot leg and foot, which is D shaped cross section and faceted with no decoration. The base of the foot is stepped and raises up, slightly curving in toward to leg. The pot attachment end recurves to meet the now lost vessel body. The terminating end is flat and smooth. The metal is mid-green in colour with predominantly smooth patina. Length: 50.41mm, Width: 14.59mm, Thickness: 15.26mm, Weight: 64.5g. Crudely made cast copper alloy vessels were widely used from c.1200-1700 for serving and…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
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Record ID: NLM-56B87A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible vessel mount. Cast flat-based foot to be attached to a wooden vessel or casket. The foot is of crooked form with an integrally cast projecting spike of length 16mm and a drilled fixing hole of diameter 3.3mm adjacent to it at its upper end. The foot itself bears four nicks dividing a frontal curve, forming the paw of a triangular animal pad at the end of a narrow ankle at right angles to it. Traces of white metal plating appear on the side of the foot. The object probably depicts the paw of a lion, a zoomorphic preference which was followed from the Roman period …
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018
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Record ID: DOR-560CCE
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four sherds of unglazed earthernware. The fabric is reduced grey at the core with patchily oxidised buff, orange and red margins. The abundant temper is mixed and includes white and pink angular qurtz sand ,calcareous pieces and, rarely, iron stone fragments (up to 2 mm). The temper is visible at the surface indicating the surfaces were wiped.and there are also voids where some of the inclusions have leached out. Two thin walled body sherds and two rim sherds, probably all from cooking jars. The rims are flat-topped and taper to the body. Handmade. Abraded. Date: Medieval - c. 1200 -…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 13th June 2018
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Record ID: DOR-55C59A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two sherds of glazed pottery. Similar in decorative style to South Somerset (Donyatt) wares, but possible from the industry centered around Holnest in Dorset (unpublished). The fabric is highly fired with a pale grey reduced core and oxidised ornage-red margins. The interior surfaces are slipped with wet sgraffito decoration under an amber and green lead glaze. The decoration comprises circumferential lines around the rim with a wavy line over the top, and vertical and horizontal lines in groups below the rim. Both sherds are flared rims from open bowls. Wheel thrown. Abraded. Date: …
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 14th July 2020
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Record ID: DOR-554F33
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two sherds of unglazed earthernware pottery. Both sherds are of a reduced grey coarsely tempered fabric. On sherd has oxidised orange margins. The abundant temper is a poorly sorted mix of flint grit, sand and ironstone pieces (up to 3 mm). Both are sherds from jar rims. One is a cupped rim with and internal lid-seat, the other is a flat-topped rim with a slight in turn. The pottery is handmade and heavily abraded. Date: Late Early - Medieval to Early Medieval - c. 11th to 13th century Weight: 43 g
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 29th May 2018
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Record ID: NARC-529AA9
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of Three fragments of a copper alloy Vessel of Medieval to Post-Medieval date (AD 1200-1700). The fragments are two rim sherds and one small body sherd and are sub-rectangular and triangular in shape. The interior surfaces have well-defined circumferential grooves. The shallow curvature suggests a wide vessel. Cast copper-alloy vessels were in common usage c 1200 - 1700 AD, becoming superseded in the 18th century by cast-iron vessels. The metal is a dark green/grey in colour with both surfaces with a predominantly smooth patina. 1 Length: 64.32mm; Height: 33.48mm; Thic…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
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Record ID: NARC-524BFD
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead Vessel repair or Pot Mend of Roman to Medieval date (AD 43-1500). The object is a cast plug and is sub-circular in plan and sub-cylindrical in plan. The upper face and the mid-section of the body have expanded portions. These would have expanded to either side of the break within the vessel. The metal is a dark cream in colour with a slightly pitted patina. Diameter: 19.32mm, Length: 16.92mm, Thickness: 16.17mm, Weight: 28.0g.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
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Record ID: NARC-523EAE
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead Vessel repair or Pot Mend of Roman to Medieval date (AD 43-1500). The object is a cast plug to mend a hole in a vessel wall. The object is composed of a flat, sub-ovate plate with a tapered inward circumferential portion. The metal is a dark cream in colour with a slightly pitted patina. Diameter: 26.49mm, Thickness: 7.79mm, Weight: 27.3g.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2022
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