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Eardisland History and Heritage Group
Eardisland Excavation 2000-2010
Site Summary: Finds were made during the excavation of a mound in the grounds adjacent to the dwelling: Burton Court Eardisland. The trench in which the majority of artefacts were found measured 5 metres by 3 metres. The stratified assemblage of pottery is of regional importance being especially well preserved and evidence for a domestic non-castle medieval site dating from the twelfth to early thirteenth centuries (1100-1250)
Site number:BC 01
Sector: D
Context number:107
One body sherd of local Herefordshire silty micaceous Ware Fabric Type HER (Hereford) A3. Medieval cooking pot with silt-stone tempering.
The sherd fragment measures: 19.6mm high, 13.6mm width, 4.7mm thick; it weighs 1.2 grams.
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Sherd specific details:
Fabric Type: Wheel thrown: Herefordshire silty micaceous Ware Fabric Type HER (Hereford) A3.
Fabric Condition: A hard fabric with inclusions.
Firing Condition: Black exterior and interior and core: mid-brown
Surface texture: Exterior: smooth with light sooting; interior: slightly rough no limescale
Condition of sherd: Fairly good / unabraded
Inclusions: Sparse angular and rounded quartz grains (0.4mm) rounded grey (?) micaceous gravel (1-2mm with some up to 4.0mm) sparse angular grey to black coloured grit with infrequent red grit, Sparse soft white limestone.
Glaze: None
Class: Herefordshire silty micaceous Ware Fabric TypeHER (Hereford) A3
Comments: Dr.. Alan Vince - identified this as Herefordshire silty micaceous Ware Fabric A3 and states that this was probably locally produced but no production sites / kilns are known. The fabric has the following distinguishing feature: are the presence of rounded fragments of fine-grained grey sandstones and fragments of rounded quarts (up to 1mm across). The groundmass is silty and micaceous. These features all indicate a source in Herefordshire; the silt micaceous clay is probably the Devonian Marl or Boulder Clay derived from this marl whilst the sandstones and quartz grains are probably derived from the outcrops of Silurian Rock and Old Red Sandstone. At Hereford, this ware first appears in assemblages dating to the later 12th or earlier 13th centuries and is one of the earliest wares found there to be locally produced. No production sites are known, but a source in or close to Hereford is likely.
Other vessels known from this fabric include handmade cooking pots which are straight sided and incompletely oxidised but with brown oxidised surfaces, Tripod pitchers with globular bodies are also known - these have cylindrical or everted rims. Colour of vessels can vary with the overall type / form during the later 12th - 13th century
Note: Vince notes that this fabric has sandstone and quartz inclusions which are more common in cooking pots. Only a few grains exceed 1mm. The colour varies with the type of vessel.
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Eardisland History and Heritage Group
Eardisland Excavation 2000-2010
Site Summary: Finds were made during the excavation of a mound in the grounds adjacent to the dwelling: Burton Court Eardisland. The trench in which the majority of artefacts were found measured 5 metres by 3 metres. The stratified assemblage of pottery is of regional importance being especially well preserved and evidence for a domestic non-castle medieval site dating from the twelfth to early thirteenth centuries (1100-1250)
Site number:BC 01
Sector: D
Context number:107
One body sherd of local Herefordshire silty micaceous Ware Fabric Type HER (Hereford) A3. Medieval cooking pot with silt-stone tempering.
The sherd fragment measures: 19.6mm high, 13.6mm width, 4.7mm thick; it weighs 1.2 grams.
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Sherd specific details:
Fabric Type: Wheel thrown: Herefordshire silty micaceous Ware Fabric Type HER (Hereford) A3.
Fabric Condition: A hard fabric with inclusions.
Firing Condition: Black exterior and interior and core: mid-brown
Surface texture: Exterior: smooth with light sooting; interior: slightly rough no limescale
Condition of sherd: Fairly good / unabraded
Inclusions: Sparse angular and rounded quartz grains (0.4mm) rounded grey (?) micaceous gravel (1-2mm with some up to 4.0mm) sparse angular grey to black coloured grit with infrequent red grit, Sparse soft white limestone.
Glaze: None
Class: Herefordshire silty micaceous Ware Fabric TypeHER (Hereford) A3
Comments: Dr.. Alan Vince - identified this as Herefordshire silty micaceous Ware Fabric A3 and states that this was probably locally produced but no production sites / kilns are known. The fabric has the following distinguishing feature: are the presence of rounded fragments of fine-grained grey sandstones and fragments of rounded quarts (up to 1mm across). The groundmass is silty and micaceous. These features all indicate a source in Herefordshire; the silt micaceous clay is probably the Devonian Marl or Boulder Clay derived from this marl whilst the sandstones and quartz grains are probably derived from the outcrops of Silurian Rock and Old Red Sandstone. At Hereford, this ware first appears in assemblages dating to the later 12th or earlier 13th centuries and is one of the earliest wares found there to be locally produced. No production sites are known, but a source in or close to Hereford is likely.
Other vessels known from this fabric include handmade cooking pots which are straight sided and incompletely oxidised but with brown oxidised surfaces, Tripod pitchers with globular bodies are also known - these have cylindrical or everted rims. Colour of vessels can vary with the overall type / form during the later 12th - 13th century
Note: Vince notes that this fabric has sandstone and quartz inclusions which are more common in cooking pots. Only a few grains exceed 1mm. The colour varies with the type of vessel.
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Eardisland History and Heritage Group
Eardisland Excavation 2000-2010
Site Summary: Finds were made during the excavation of a mound in the grounds adjacent to the dwelling: Burton Court Eardisland. The trench in which the majority of artefacts were found measured 5 metres by 3 metres. The stratified assemblage of pottery is of regional importance being especially well preserved and evidence for a domestic non-castle medieval site dating from the twelfth to early thirteenth centuries (1100-1250)
Site number: BC 01
Sector: D
Context number: 105
An abraded flat base sherds which conjoin along a modern break of Worcester Ware Fabric Type HER (Hereford) C1. from hand made cooking pots.
It measures: 15.4mm in high, 34.7mm width, and 8.2 across the base and 7.3mm across side wall: 15.4 grams. The external diameter of the base is 22cm representing 4% of the total circumference.
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Sherd specific details:
Fabric Type: Worcerster Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1.
Fabric Condition: A fine hard fabric with inclusions
Firing Condition:Exterior mid-dark grey; core black and interior dark grey
Surface texture: exterior smooth and sooted; interior sparse limescale
Condition of sherd. good - unabraded
Inclusions: Abundant small well sorted rounded white quartz grains average size 0.8mm - 1.0 mm, sparse white mica, occasional angular quartz grains (1.0mm). A small quantity of rounded sandstone grains is also present often over 1mm and occasionally up to 4.0mm.
Glaze: None
Class: Worcerster Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1.
Comments: Dr. Alan Vince - identified this as Worcester Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1. and states that this was probably locally produced at Worcester in the 12th - 14th centuries. From the beginning of the 13th century the potters at this production site began to use the potters wheel and also began to use glaze, even on cooking pots. No wheel-thrown or glazed examples were discovered within the samples sent in two batches from the investigations at Burton Court (C1 fabric = 27 and 82 sherds). All of teh sherds submitted are likely to be of cooking pots and many have both sooting on the outside of the vessel and off-light limescale on the interior. indicating their use in boiling water. Fourteen of the sherds were rims, all of an everted form with an inturned lip and some of the rims had rounded profiles whilst others with flat top. There is no known chronological difference between the two types. Some of these vessels were quite small, in the order of 200mm diameter, whereas others are similar in size to the Malvern Chase fabric vessels. Some of these maybe of early - mid 12th century in date and all are likely to date to the 12th rather than the 13th century.
Vessels of this fabric include handmade / formed cooking pots with club rims and sagging bases. The everted rim cooking pots were hand formed vessels with roughly cylindrical bodies. The rims have flat tops or are thickened and the bases are also sagged. Most vessels seem to have been smoothed on a turn table but some may have been wheelthrown.
Documentary and archaeological evidence suggests that this ware was produced at Worcester from the early 12th to 13th centuries. In Hereford, it is much more common in the 12th rather than the 13th centuries.
Note: Vince notes that the most common inclusion within this fabric is white quartz mainly measuring between 0.1-0.4mm across but can occur up to 1.2mm.
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Eardisland History and Heritage Group
Eardisland Excavation 2000-2010
Site Summary: Finds were made during the excavation of a mound in the grounds adjacent to the dwelling: Burton Court Eardisland. The trench in which the majority of artefacts were found measured 5 metres by 3 metres. The stratified assemblage of pottery is of regional importance being especially well preserved and evidence for a domestic non-castle medieval site dating from the twelfth to early thirteenth centuries (1100-1250)
Site number: BC 01
Sector: D
Context number: 105
12 abraded body sherds of Worcester Ware Fabric Type HER (Hereford) C1. from hand made cooking pots. This form of fabric is more prevalent in the 12th rather than the 13th centuries
The largest fragment measure:
58.5 mm high, 51.2mm width, 5.3mm thick and weighs 18.9 grams.
The smallest fragment measure:
27.8mm high, 16.4mm width, 5.1mm thick and weighs 2.3 grams.
The bulk weight: 21.2 grams
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Sherd specific details:
Fabric Type: Worcerster Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1.
Fabric Condition: A fine hard fabric with inclusions
Firing Condition:
1. Exterior black; core mid-dark grey; and interior: not visible due to limescale
2. Exterior, black, core: dark grey; interior not visible due to limescale
Surface texture:
1. Exterior smooth - evenly sooted; rough, heavily limescaled
2. Exterior smooth - evenly sooted; rough, heavily limescaled
Condition of sherd.
1. Excellent- unabraded
2. Good - unabraded
Inclusions: Abundant small well sorted rounded white quartz grains average size 0.8mm - 1.0 mm, sparse white mica, occasional angular quartz grains (1.0mm). A small quantity of rounded sandstone grains is also present often over 1mm and occasionally up to 4.0mm.
Glaze: None
Class: Worcerster Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1.
Comments: Dr. Alan Vince - identified this as Worcester Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1. and states that this was probably locally produced at Worcester in the 12th - 14th centuries. From the beginning of the 13th century the potters at this production site began to use the potters wheel and also began to use glaze, even on cooking pots. No wheel-thrown or glazed examples were discovered within the samples sent in two batches from the investigations at Burton Court (C1 fabric = 27 and 82 sherds). All of teh sherds submitted are likely to be of cooking pots and many have both sooting on the outside of the vessel and off-light limescale on the interior. indicating their use in boiling water. Fourteen of the sherds were rims, all of an everted form with an inturned lip and some of the rims had rounded profiles whilst others with flat top. There is no known chronological difference between the two types. Some of these vessels were quite small, in the order of 200mm diameter, whereas others are similar in size to the Malvern Chase fabric vessels. Some of these maybe of early - mid 12th century in date and all are likely to date to the 12th rather than the 13th century.
Vessels of this fabric include handmade / formed cooking pots with club rims and sagging bases. The everted rim cooking pots were hand formed vessels with roughly cylindrical bodies. The rims have flat tops or are thickened and the bases are also sagged. Most vessels seem to have been smoothed on a turn table but some may have been wheelthrown.
Documentary and archaeological evidence suggests that this ware was produced at Worcester from the early 12th to 13th centuries. In Hereford, it is much more common in the 12th rather than the 13th centuries.
Note: Vince notes that the most common inclusion within this fabric is white quartz mainly measuring between 0.1-0.4mm across but can occur up to 1.2mm.
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Eardisland History and Heritage Group
Eardisland Excavation 2000-2010
Site Summary:Finds were made during the excavation of a mound in the grounds adjacent to the dwelling: Burton Court Eardisland. The trench in which the majority of artefacts were found measured 5 metres by 3 metres. The stratified assemblage of pottery is of regional importance being especially well preserved and evidence for a domestic non-castle medieval site dating from the twelfth to early thirteenth centuries (1100-1250)
Site number: BC 01
Sector: C
Context number: 105
One unabraded rim sherds of Worcester Ware Fabric Type HER (Hereford) C1. from hand made cooking pots.
The fragments measures.: 31.1mm in height, 29.0mm width, 11.4mm thick at rim 5.4mm thick at body; it weighs 12.8 grams. The external diameter of the rim is 18cm representing 5% of the total circumference.
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Sherd specific details:
Fabric Type: Worcerster Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1.
Fabric Condition: A fine hard friable fabric with inclusions
Firing Condition: Black exterior - core dark grey - interior black
Surface texture: interior slightly rough no limescale and exterior rough and sooted
Condition of sherd. Good
Inclusions: Abundant small well sorted rounded white quartz grains average size 0.8mm - 1.0mm, sparse white mica, ocasional angular quartz grains (1.0mm). A small quantity of rounded sandstone grains is also present often over 1mm and occasiocnally up to 4.0mm.
Glaze: None
Class: Worcerster Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1.
Rim Type: Flat topped everted rim
Comments: Dr. Alan Vince - identified this as Worcester Ware fabricHER (Hereford) C1. and states that this was probably locally produced at Worcester in the 12th - 14th centuries. From the beginning of the 13th century the potters at this production site began to use the potters wheel and also began to use glaze, even on cooking pots. No wheelthrown or glazed examples were discovered within the samples sent in two batches from the investigations at Burton Court (C1 fabric = 27 and 82 sherds). All of teh sherds submitted are likely to be of cooking pots and many have both sooting on the outside of the vessel and off-light limescale on the interior. indicating their use in boiling water. Fourteen of the sherds were rims, all of an everted form with an inturned lip and some of the rims had rounded profiles whilst others with flat top. There is no known chronological difference between the two types. Some of these vessels were quite small, in the order of 200mm diameter, whereas others are similar in size to the Malvern Chase fabric vessels. Some of these maybe of early - mid 12th century in date and all are likely to date to the 12th rather than the 13th century.
Vessels of this fabric include handmade / formed cooking pots with club rims and sagging bases. The everted rim cooking pots were hand formed vessels with roughly cylindrical bodies. The rims have flat tops or are thickened and the bases are also sagged. Most vessels seem to have been smoothed on a turn table but some may have been wheelthrown.
Documentary and archaeological evidence suggests that this ware was produced at Worcester from the early 12th to 13th centuries. In Hereford, it is much more common in the 12th rather than the 13th centuries.
Note: Vince notes that the most common inclusion within this fabric is white quartz mainly measuring between 0.1-0.4mm across but can occur up to 1.2mm.
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Eardisland History and Heritage Group
Eardisland Excavation 2000-2010
Site Summary: Finds were made during the excavation of a mound in the grounds adjacent to the dwelling: Burton Court Eardisland. The trench in which the majority of artefacts were found measured 5 metres by 3 metres. The stratified assemblage of pottery is of regional importance being especially well preserved and evidence for a domestic non-castle medieval site dating from the twelfth to early thirteenth centuries (1100-1250)
Site number: BC 01
Sector: D
Context number: 105
One body sherd of Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1 - probably produced at Hanley Castle, Worcestershire. from hand made cooking pots.
It measures: 10.7mm high, 23.2mm width, 5.6mm thick; it weighs 0.8 grams.
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Sherd specific details:
Fabric Type: Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1
Fabric Condition: A hard coarse fabric with inclusions
Firing Condition: Exterior: black, Core: dark grey and Interior dark grey
Surface texture:. Exterior very smooth (almost burnished) and no sooting and interior smooth- no sooting or limescale.
Condition of sherds: Poor: abraded
Inclusions: Large common fragments of light - mid grey and white angular grits (max 3.0mm - 0.5mm), Sparse angular quartz (less than 0.1mm), Angular mid-grey - white soft limestone / clacite, small sparse mid grey - mid brown coloured stone (ironstone?)
Glaze: None
Class: Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1
Comments: Dr. Alan Vince - identified this as Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1 and states that the most common inclusions within the fabric consists of large angular fragments of igneous rock (up to 4.0mm across) which form up to 10% by volume of the pot. Rounded quartz (up to 1.4mm) is also common at approximately 4% by volume. Other large inclusion sometimes are 1.0mm across include rounded sandstones and metamorphic rocks. Small fragmnets of rounded chert, clay pellets, biotite, and horneblende occur, white opaque iron ore and angular quartz both less than 0.1mm are visible in section. Vessels are usually black or grey thoughout owing to reduction in the firing and the presence of carbon within the fabric.
The earliest 12th century vessels are thin-walled irregularly hand formed and roughly cylindrical cooking pots. Rims are usually everted and angular in profile while a few have a cordon just below the rim. Very little finishing is apparent. The late 12th and 13th century pots are similar although the vessels tend to become slightly larger and thicker walled with smoother profiles
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Eardisland History and Heritage Group
Eardisland Excavation 2000-2010
Site Summary:Finds were made during the excavation of a mound in the grounds adjacent to the dwelling: Burton Court Eardisland. The trench in which the majority of artefacts were found measured 5 metres by 3 metres. The stratified assemblage of pottery is of regional importance being especially well preserved and evidence for a domestic non-castle medieval site dating from the twelfth to early thirteenth centuries (1100-1250)
Site number: BC 01
Sector: D
Context number: 103
One unabraded rim sherd of Worcester Ware Fabric Type HER (Hereford) C1. from hand made cooking pots.
It measures: 25.3mm in height, 41.9mm width, 15.0mm thick at rim 5.7mm thick at body; it weighs 15.2 grams.
The external diameter of the rim is 16cm representing 8% of the total circumference.
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Sherd specific details:
Fabric Type: Worcerster Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1.
Fabric Condition: A fine hard friable fabric with inclusions
Firing Condition: Black exterior - core mid - dark grey - interior mid - dark grey
Surface texture:. Exterior rough and sooted interior slightly rough: no sooting or limescale
Condition of sherd.: Good
Inclusions: Abundant small well sorted rounded white quartz grains average size 0.8mm - 1.0mm, sparse white mica, occosaional angular quartz grains (1.0mm). A small quantity of rounded sandstone grains is also present often over 1mm and occasiocnally up to 4.0mm.
Glaze: None
Class: Worcerster Ware fabricHER (Hereford) C1.
Rim Type: Flat topped everted rim
Comments: Dr. Alan Vince - identified this as Worcester Ware fabricHER (Hereford) C1. and states that this was probably locally produced at Worcester in the 12th - 14th centuries. From the beginning of the 13th century the potters at this production site began to use the potters wheel and also began to use glaze, even on cooking pots. No wheelthrown or glazed examples were discovered within the samples sent in two batches from the investigations at Burton Court (C1 fabric = 27 and 82 sherds). All of teh sherds submitted are likely to be of cooking pots and many have both sooting on the outside of the vessel and off-light limescale on the interior. indicating their use in boiling water. Fourteen of the sherds were rims, all of an everted form with an inturned lip and some of the rims had rounded profiles whilst others with flat top. There is no known chronological difference between the two types. Some of these vessels were quite small, in the order of 200mm diameter, whereas others are similar in size to the Malvern Chase fabric vessels. Some of these maybe of early - mid 12th century in date and all are likely to date to the 12th rather than the 13th century.
Vessels of this fabric include handmade / formed cooking pots with club rims and sagging bases. The everted rim cooking pots were hand formed vessels with roughly cylindrical bodies. The rims have flat tops or are thickened and the bases are also sagged. Most vessels seem to have been smoothed on a turn table but some may have been wheelthrown.
Documentary and archaeological evidence suggests that this ware was produced at Worcester from the early 12th to 13th centuries. In Hereford, it is much more common in the 12th rather than the 13th centuries.
Note: Vince notes that the most common inclusion within this fabric is white quartz mainly measuring between 0.1-0.4mm across but can occur up to 1.2mm.
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Eardisland History and Heritage Group
Eardisland Excavation 2000-2010
Site Summary: Finds were made during the excavation of a mound in the grounds adjacent to the dwelling: Burton Court Eardisland. The trench in which the majority of artefacts were found measured 5 metres by 3 metres. The stratified assemblage of pottery is of regional importance being especially well preserved and evidence for a domestic non-castle medieval site dating from the twelfth to early thirteenth centuries (1100-1250)
Site number: BC 01
Sector: D
Context number: 103
One body sherd of Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1 - probably produced at Hanley Castle, Worcestershire. from hand made cooking pots.
It measures: 39.4mm high, 14.8mm width, 5.8mm thick; it weighs 5.6 grams.
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Sherd specific details:
Fabric Type: Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1
Fabric Condition: A hard coarse fabric with inclusions
Firing Condition: Exterior: black, Core: dark grey and Interior dark grey
Surface texture:. Exterior smooth and no sooting and interior smooth- no sooting or limescale.
Condition of sherds: Very good: Unabraded
Inclusions: Large common fragments of light - mid grey and white angular grits (max 3.0mm - 0.5mm), Sparse angular quartz (less than 0.1mm), Angular mid-grey - white soft limestone / clacite, small sparse mid grey - mid brown coloured stone (ironstone?)
Glaze: None
Class: Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1
Comments: Dr. Alan Vince - identified this as Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1 and states that the most common inclusions within the fabric consists of large angular fragments of igneous rock (up to 4.0mm across) which form up to 10% by volume of the pot. Rounded quartz (up to 1.4mm) is also common at approximately 4% by volume. Other large inclusion sometimes are 1.0mm across include rounded sandstones and metamorphic rocks. Small fragmnets of rounded chert, clay pellets, biotite, and horneblende occur, white opaque iron ore and angular quartz both less than 0.1mm are visible in section. Vessels are usually black or grey thoughout owing to reduction in the firing and the presence of carbon within the fabric.
The earliest 12th century vessels are thin-walled irregularly hand formed and roughly cylindrical cooking pots. Rims are usually everted and angular in profile while a few have a cordon just below the rim. Very little finishing is apparent. The late 12th and 13th century pots are similar although the vessels tend to become slightly larger and thicker walled with smoother profiles
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Eardisland History and Heritage Group
Eardisland Excavation 2000-2010
Site Summary: Finds were made during the excavation of a mound in the grounds adjacent to the dwelling: Burton Court Eardisland. The trench in which the majority of artefacts were found measured 5 metres by 3 metres. The stratified assemblage of pottery is of regional importance being especially well preserved and evidence for a domestic non-castle medieval site dating from the twelfth to early thirteenth centuries (1100-1250)
Site number: BC 01
Sector: C
Context number: 109
Two abraded body sherds of Worcester Ware Fabric Type HER (Hereford) C1. from hand made cooking pots.
The largest fragment measure:
33.1 mm high, 26.3mm width, 4.3mm thick and weighs 4.6 grams.
The smallest fragment measure:
23.6mm high, 19.9mm width, 6.5mm thick and weighs 4.2 grams.
The sherds weigh: 8.8 grams
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Sherd specific details:
Fabric Type: Worcerster Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1.
Fabric Condition: A fine hard fabric with inclusions
Firing Condition:
1. Exterior dark-grey to black; core dark grey; and interior: brown
2. Exterior, black, core: dark grey; interior dark grey
Surface texture:
1. Exterior smooth - evenly sooted; slightly rough, no sooting - evenly limescaled
2. Exterior smooth no sooting and interior slightly rough - no sooting or limescale
Condition of sherd.
1. Quite Good - unabraded
2. Good - unabraded
Inclusions: Abundant small well sorted rounded white quartz grains average size 0.8mm - 1.0 mm, sparse white mica, occasional angular quartz grains (1.0mm). A small quantity of rounded sandstone grains is also present often over 1mm and occasionally up to 4.0mm.
Glaze: None
Class: Worcerster Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1.
Comments: Dr. Alan Vince - identified this as Worcester Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1. and states that this was probably locally produced at Worcester in the 12th - 14th centuries. From the beginning of the 13th century the potters at this production site began to use the potters wheel and also began to use glaze, even on cooking pots. No wheel-thrown or glazed examples were discovered within the samples sent in two batches from the investigations at Burton Court (C1 fabric = 27 and 82 sherds). All of teh sherds submitted are likely to be of cooking pots and many have both sooting on the outside of the vessel and off-light limescale on the interior. indicating their use in boiling water. Fourteen of the sherds were rims, all of an everted form with an inturned lip and some of the rims had rounded profiles whilst others with flat top. There is no known chronological difference between the two types. Some of these vessels were quite small, in the order of 200mm diameter, whereas others are similar in size to the Malvern Chase fabric vessels. Some of these maybe of early - mid 12th century in date and all are likely to date to the 12th rather than the 13th century.
Vessels of this fabric include handmade / formed cooking pots with club rims and sagging bases. The everted rim cooking pots were hand formed vessels with roughly cylindrical bodies. The rims have flat tops or are thickened and the bases are also sagged. Most vessels seem to have been smoothed on a turn table but some may have been wheelthrown.
Documentary and archaeological evidence suggests that this ware was produced at Worcester from the early 12th to 13th centuries. In Hereford, it is much more common in the 12th rather than the 13th centuries.
Note: Vince notes that the most common inclusion within this fabric is white quartz mainly measuring between 0.1-0.4mm across but can occur up to 1.2mm.
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Eardisland History and Heritage Group
Eardisland Excavation 2000-2010
Site Summary: Finds were made during the excavation of a mound in the grounds adjacent to the dwelling: Burton Court Eardisland. The trench in which the majority of artefacts were found measured 5 metres by 3 metres. The stratified assemblage of pottery is of regional importance being especially well preserved and evidence for a domestic non-castle medieval site dating from the twelfth to early thirteenth centuries (1100-1250)
Site number: BC 01
Sector: C
Context number: 109
A base sherd of Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1 - probably produced at Hanley Castle, Worcestershire. from hand made cooking pots.
The fragments measure:
34.8 mm high, 31.6mm width, 4.5mm thick at base; it weighs 9.2 grams. The external diameter cannot be measured because the sherd is flat
__________________________________________________________
Sherd specific details:
Fabric Type: Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1 - hand thrown
Fabric Condition: A hard coarse fabric with inclusions
Firing Condition: Exterior dark-grey brown; core - dark grey Interior: light-brown
Surface texture: exterior smooth no sooting and interior smooth and heavily limescaled
Condition of sherds. Good- unabraded
Inclusions: Large common fragments of light - mid grey and white angular grits (max 3.0mm - 0.5mm), Sparse angular quartz (less than 0.1mm), Angular mid-grey - white soft limestone / clacite, small sparse mid grey - mid brown coloured stone (ironstone?)
Glaze: None
Class: Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1
Comments: Dr. Alan Vince - identified this as Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1 and states that the most common inclusions within the fabric consists of large angular fragments of igneous rock (up to 4.0mm across) which form up to 10% by volume of the pot. Rounded quartz (up to 1.4mm) is also common at approximately 4% by volume. Other large inclusion sometimes are 1.0mm across include rounded sandstones and metamorphic rocks. Small fragmnets of rounded chert, clay pellets, biotite, and horneblende occur, white opaque iron ore and angular quartz both less than 0.1mm are visible in section. Vessels are usually black or grey thoughout owing to reduction in the firing and the presence of carbon within the fabric.
The earliest 12th century vessels are thin-walled irregularly hand formed and roughly cylindrical cooking pots. Rims are usually everted and angular in profile while a few have a cordon just below the rim. Very little finishing is apparent. The late 12th and 13th century pots are similar although the vessels tend to become slightly larger and thicker walled with smoother profiles.
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Eardisland History and Heritage Group
Eardisland Excavation 2000-2010
Site Summary: Finds were made during the excavation of a mound in the grounds adjacent to the dwelling: Burton Court Eardisland. The trench in which the majority of artefacts were found measured 5 metres by 3 metres. The stratified assemblage of pottery is of regional importance being especially well preserved and evidence for a domestic non-castle medieval site dating from the twelfth to early thirteenth centuries (1100-1250)
Site number: BC 01
Sector: C
Context number: 109
2 body sherds of Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1 - probably produced at Hanley Castle, Worcestershire. from hand made cooking pots.
The largest fragment measures: 35.7mm high, 45.1mm width, 4.4mm thick; it weighs 11.7 grams.
The smallest fragment measures: 36.1mm high, 22.0mm width, 4.0mm thick; it weighs 5.0 grams.
Bulk weight: 16.7 grams
__________________________________________________________
Sherd specific details:
Fabric Type: Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1
Fabric Condition: A hard coarse fabric with inclusions
Firing Condition:
1. Exterior: dark - grey / black, Core: Dark grey and Interior mid-brown - grey
2. Exterior: Core: & interior mid grey throught
Surface texture:
1. Exterior smooth and evenly sooted and interior slightly rough - no sooting or limescale.
2. Exterior very smooth and interior slightly rough- no sooting or limescale.
Condition of sherds: Good: Unabraded
Inclusions: Large common fragments of light - mid grey and white angular grits (max 3.0mm - 0.5mm), Sparse angular quartz (less than 0.1mm), Angular mid-grey - white soft limestone / clacite, small sparse mid grey - mid brown coloured stone (ironstone?)
Glaze: None
Class: Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1
Comments: Dr. Alan Vince - identified this as Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1 and states that the most common inclusions within the fabric consists of large angular fragments of igneous rock (up to 4.0mm across) which form up to 10% by volume of the pot. Rounded quartz (up to 1.4mm) is also common at approximately 4% by volume. Other large inclusion sometimes are 1.0mm across include rounded sandstones and metamorphic rocks. Small fragmnets of rounded chert, clay pellets, biotite, and horneblende occur, white opaque iron ore and angular quartz both less than 0.1mm are visible in section. Vessels are usually black or grey thoughout owing to reduction in the firing and the presence of carbon within the fabric.
The earliest 12th century vessels are thin-walled irregularly hand formed and roughly cylindrical cooking pots. Rims are usually everted and angular in profile while a few have a cordon just below the rim. Very little finishing is apparent. The late 12th and 13th century pots are similar although the vessels tend to become slightly larger and thicker walled with smoother profiles
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Eardisland History and Heritage Group
Eardisland Excavation 2000-2010
Site Summary: Finds were made during the excavation of a mound in the grounds adjacent to the dwelling: Burton Court Eardisland. The trench in which the majority of artefacts were found measured 5 metres by 3 metres. The stratified assemblage of pottery is of regional importance being especially well preserved and evidence for a domestic non-castle medieval site dating from the twelfth to early thirteenth centuries (1100-1250)
Site number: BC 01
Sector: C
Context number: 107
11 abraded flat base sherds which conjoin along a modern break of Worcester Ware Fabric Type HER (Hereford) C1. from hand made cooking pots.
The largest fragment measure:
28.5mm in high, 76.9mm width, and 7.0 across the base and 5.5mm across the side wall: 35.5 grams. The external diameter of the base is 29cm representing 9% of the total circumference.
The smallest fragment measure:
19.2mm in high, 29.8mm width, 5.2mm across base and 4.8mm across side wall: 7.2 grams. The external diameter of the base is 18 cm representing 5% of the total circumference.
The sherds weigh: 175.6 grams
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Sherd specific details:
Fabric Type: Worcerster Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1.
Fabric Condition: A fine hard fabric with inclusions
Firing Condition:
1. Exterior mid-brown to grey; core mid grey and interior mid-brown
2. Exterior black; core dark grey and interior brown - grey
Surface texture:
1. Exterior and interior very smooth - no sooting or limescale
2. Exterior and interior very smooth no sooting or limescale
Condition of sherd.
1. good - unabraded
2. good - unabraded
Inclusions: Abundant small well sorted rounded white quartz grains average size 0.8mm - 1.0 mm, sparse white mica, occasional angular quartz grains (1.0mm). A small quantity of rounded sandstone grains is also present often over 1mm and occasionally up to 4.0mm.
Glaze: None
Class: Worcerster Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1.
Base Diameter
3. The external diameter of the base is 27 cm representing 6% of the total circumference.
4. The external diameter of the base is 25 cm representing 6% of the total circumference.
5. The external diameter of the base is 27 cm representing 6% of the total circumference.
6. The external diameter of the base is 20 cm representing 5% of the total circumference.
7. The external diameter of the base is 17 cm representing 4% of the total circumference.
8-11. Undiagnostic or flat
Comments: Dr. Alan Vince - identified this as Worcester Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1. and states that this was probably locally produced at Worcester in the 12th - 14th centuries. From the beginning of the 13th century the potters at this production site began to use the potters wheel and also began to use glaze, even on cooking pots. No wheel-thrown or glazed examples were discovered within the samples sent in two batches from the investigations at Burton Court (C1 fabric = 27 and 82 sherds). All of teh sherds submitted are likely to be of cooking pots and many have both sooting on the outside of the vessel and off-light limescale on the interior. indicating their use in boiling water. Fourteen of the sherds were rims, all of an everted form with an inturned lip and some of the rims had rounded profiles whilst others with flat top. There is no known chronological difference between the two types. Some of these vessels were quite small, in the order of 200mm diameter, whereas others are similar in size to the Malvern Chase fabric vessels. Some of these maybe of early - mid 12th century in date and all are likely to date to the 12th rather than the 13th century.
Vessels of this fabric include handmade / formed cooking pots with club rims and sagging bases. The everted rim cooking pots were hand formed vessels with roughly cylindrical bodies. The rims have flat tops or are thickened and the bases are also sagged. Most vessels seem to have been smoothed on a turn table but some may have been wheelthrown.
Documentary and archaeological evidence suggests that this ware was produced at Worcester from the early 12th to 13th centuries. In Hereford, it is much more common in the 12th rather than the 13th centuries.
Note: Vince notes that the most common inclusion within this fabric is white quartz mainly measuring between 0.1-0.4mm across but can occur up to 1.2mm.
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Eardisland History and Heritage Group
Eardisland Excavation 2000-2010
Site Summary: Finds were made during the excavation of a mound in the grounds adjacent to the dwelling: Burton Court Eardisland. The trench in which the majority of artefacts were found measured 5 metres by 3 metres. The stratified assemblage of pottery is of regional importance being especially well preserved and evidence for a domestic non-castle medieval site dating from the twelfth to early thirteenth centuries (1100-1250)
Site number: BC 01
Sector: C
Context number: 107
61 abraded body sherds of Worcester Ware Fabric Type HER (Hereford) C1. from hand made cooking pots.
The largest fragment measure:
90.3 mm high, 64.3mm width, 3.9mm thick and weighs 47.3 grams. - two conjoined sherds
The smallest fragment measure:
13.6mm high, 10.1mm width, 5.4mm thick and weighs 0.9 grams.
The sherds weigh: 624 grams
___________________________________________________________
Sherd specific details:
Fabric Type: Worcerster Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1.
Fabric Condition: A fine hard fabric with inclusions
Firing Condition:
1. Exterior black; core dark grey - black; and interior: dark grey-black
2. Exterior, dark grey core: mid grey; interior mid-brown - grey
Surface texture:
1. Exterior smooth - heavily sooted; Interior rough, no sooting - slight limescale and food residues
2. Exterior and interior smooth no sooting or limescale
Condition of sherd.
1. excellent- unabraded
2. Poor
Inclusions: Abundant small well sorted rounded white quartz grains average size 0.8mm - 1.0 mm, sparse white mica, occasional angular quartz grains (1.0mm). A small quantity of rounded sandstone grains is also present often over 1mm and occasionally up to 4.0mm.
Glaze: None
Class: Worcerster Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1.
Comments: Dr. Alan Vince - identified this as Worcester Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1. and states that this was probably locally produced at Worcester in the 12th - 14th centuries. From the beginning of the 13th century the potters at this production site began to use the potters wheel and also began to use glaze, even on cooking pots. No wheel-thrown or glazed examples were discovered within the samples sent in two batches from the investigations at Burton Court (C1 fabric = 27 and 82 sherds). All of teh sherds submitted are likely to be of cooking pots and many have both sooting on the outside of the vessel and off-light limescale on the interior. indicating their use in boiling water. Fourteen of the sherds were rims, all of an everted form with an inturned lip and some of the rims had rounded profiles whilst others with flat top. There is no known chronological difference between the two types. Some of these vessels were quite small, in the order of 200mm diameter, whereas others are similar in size to the Malvern Chase fabric vessels. Some of these maybe of early - mid 12th century in date and all are likely to date to the 12th rather than the 13th century.
Vessels of this fabric include handmade / formed cooking pots with club rims and sagging bases. The everted rim cooking pots were hand formed vessels with roughly cylindrical bodies. The rims have flat tops or are thickened and the bases are also sagged. Most vessels seem to have been smoothed on a turn table but some may have been wheelthrown.
Documentary and archaeological evidence suggests that this ware was produced at Worcester from the early 12th to 13th centuries. In Hereford, it is much more common in the 12th rather than the 13th centuries.
Note: Vince notes that the most common inclusion within this fabric is white quartz mainly measuring between 0.1-0.4mm across but can occur up to 1.2mm.
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Eardisland History and Heritage Group
Eardisland Excavation 2000-2010
Site Summary:Finds were made during the excavation of a mound in the grounds adjacent to the dwelling: Burton Court Eardisland. The trench in which the majority of artefacts were found measured 5 metres by 3 metres. The stratified assemblage of pottery is of regional importance being especially well preserved and evidence for a domestic non-castle medieval site dating from the twelfth to early thirteenth centuries (1100-1250)
Site number: BC 01
Sector: C
Context number: 107
Three unabraded rim sherds of Worcester Ware Fabric Type HER (Hereford) C1. from hand made cooking pots.
The fragments measures.:
1: 32.3mm in height, 62.5mm width, 16.4mm thick at rim 6.1mm thick at body; it weighs 27.3 grams.
The external diameter of the rim is 25 cm representing 7% of the total circumference.
2: 33.2mm in height, 45.4mm width, 12.4mm thick at rim 7.1mm thick at body; it weighs 21.8 grams.
The external diameter of the rim is 15 cm representing 10% of the total circumference.
Bulk weight: 74.2 grams
___________________________________________________________
Sherd specific details:
Fabric Type: Worcerster Ware fabric HER (Hereford) C1.
Fabric Condition: A fine hard friable fabric with inclusions
Firing Condition:
1. Brown - dark grey exterior - core grey - interior dark grey
2. Dark grey exterior - core mid-grey - interior brown - grey
Surface texture:
1. interior slightly rough and exterior smooth and no sooting.
2. exterior and interior slightly rough - no sooting
Condition of sherd.
1. Very Good
2. Good
Inclusions: Abundant small well sorted rounded white quartz grains average size 0.8mm - 1.0mm, sparse white mica, occosaional angular quartz grains (1.0mm). A small quantity of rounded sandstone grains is also present often over 1mm and occasiocnally up to 4.0mm.
Glaze: None
Class: Worcerster Ware fabricHER (Hereford) C1.
Rim Type: Flat topped everted rim
Rim Diameter:
3. The external diameter of the rim is 26 cm representing 7% of the total circumference.
Comments: Dr. Alan Vince - identified this as Worcester Ware fabricHER (Hereford) C1. and states that this was probably locally produced at Worcester in the 12th - 14th centuries. From the beginning of the 13th century the potters at this production site began to use the potters wheel and also began to use glaze, even on cooking pots. No wheelthrown or glazed examples were discovered within the samples sent in two batches from the investigations at Burton Court (C1 fabric = 27 and 82 sherds). All of teh sherds submitted are likely to be of cooking pots and many have both sooting on the outside of the vessel and off-light limescale on the interior. indicating their use in boiling water. Fourteen of the sherds were rims, all of an everted form with an inturned lip and some of the rims had rounded profiles whilst others with flat top. There is no known chronological difference between the two types. Some of these vessels were quite small, in the order of 200mm diameter, whereas others are similar in size to the Malvern Chase fabric vessels. Some of these maybe of early - mid 12th century in date and all are likely to date to the 12th rather than the 13th century.
Vessels of this fabric include handmade / formed cooking pots with club rims and sagging bases. The everted rim cooking pots were hand formed vessels with roughly cylindrical bodies. The rims have flat tops or are thickened and the bases are also sagged. Most vessels seem to have been smoothed on a turn table but some may have been wheelthrown.
Documentary and archaeological evidence suggests that this ware was produced at Worcester from the early 12th to 13th centuries. In Hereford, it is much more common in the 12th rather than the 13th centuries.
Note:Vince notes that the most common inclusion within this fabric is white quartz mainly measuring between 0.1-0.4mm across but can occur up to 1.2mm.
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Eardisland History and Heritage Group
Eardisland Excavation 2000-2010
Site Summary: Finds were made during the excavation of a mound in the grounds adjacent to the dwelling: Burton Court Eardisland. The trench in which the majority of artefacts were found measured 5 metres by 3 metres. The stratified assemblage of pottery is of regional importance being especially well preserved and evidence for a domestic non-castle medieval site dating from the twelfth to early thirteenth centuries (1100-1250)
Site number: BC 01
Sector: C
Context number: 107
One flat base sherd of Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1 - probably produced at Hanley Castle, Worcestershire. from hand made cooking pots.
The fragments measure:
32.4mm high, 30.5mm width, 6.9mm thick at base; 3.7mm thick across side wall: it weighs 9.1 grams. The external diameter represnets 7% of the base and the projected diameter is 12cm
__________________________________________________________
Sherd specific details:
Fabric Type: Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1 - hand thrown
Fabric Condition: A hard coarse fabric with inclusions
Firing Condition: 1. Exterior dark grey, core - dark - grey, Interior: Mid-brown
Surface texture: exterior and interior smoothno sooting or limescale
Condition of sherds. Good- unabraded
Inclusions: Large common fragments of light - mid grey and white angular grits (max 3.0mm - 0.5mm), Sparse angular quartz (less than 0.1mm), Angular mid-grey - white soft limestone / clacite, small sparse mid grey - mid brown coloured stone (ironstone?)
Glaze: None
Class: Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1
Comments: Dr. Alan Vince - identified this as Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1 and states that the most common inclusions within the fabric consists of large angular fragments of igneous rock (up to 4.0mm across) which form up to 10% by volume of the pot. Rounded quartz (up to 1.4mm) is also common at approximately 4% by volume. Other large inclusion sometimes are 1.0mm across include rounded sandstones and metamorphic rocks. Small fragmnets of rounded chert, clay pellets, biotite, and horneblende occur, white opaque iron ore and angular quartz both less than 0.1mm are visible in section. Vessels are usually black or grey thoughout owing to reduction in the firing and the presence of carbon within the fabric.
The earliest 12th century vessels are thin-walled irregularly hand formed and roughly cylindrical cooking pots. Rims are usually everted and angular in profile while a few have a cordon just below the rim. Very little finishing is apparent. The late 12th and 13th century pots are similar although the vessels tend to become slightly larger and thicker walled with smoother profiles.
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Eardisland History and Heritage Group
Eardisland Excavation 2000-2010
Site Summary: Finds were made during the excavation of a mound in the grounds adjacent to the dwelling: Burton Court Eardisland. The trench in which the majority of artefacts were found measured 5 metres by 3 metres. The stratified assemblage of pottery is of regional importance being especially well preserved and evidence for a domestic non-castle medieval site dating from the twelfth to early thirteenth centuries (1100-1250)
Site number: BC 01
Sector: C
Context number: 7
22 body sherds of Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1 - probably produced at Hanley Castle, Worcestershire. from hand made cooking pots.
The largest fragment measures: 79.8mm high, 37.9mm width, 7.7mm thick; it weighs 30.1 grams.
The smallest fragment measures: 11.9mm high, 11.5mm width, 4.5mm thick; it weighs 0.5 grams.
Bulk weight: 58.3 grams
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Sherd specific details:
Fabric Type: Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1
Fabric Condition: A hard coarse fabric with inclusions
Firing Condition:
1. Exterior: Mid-brown, Core: Mid-brown - grey and Interior mid-brown
2. Exterior: Black, Core: grey and Interior dark grey
Surface texture:
1. Exterior smooth and interior smooth - no sooting or limescale.
2. Exterior smooth and interior slightly rough- no sooting or limescale.
Condition of sherds: Very Good: Unabraded
Inclusions: Large common fragments of light - mid grey and white angular grits (max 3.0mm - 0.5mm), Sparse angular quartz (less than 0.1mm), Angular mid-grey - white soft limestone / clacite, small sparse mid grey - mid brown coloured stone (ironstone?)
Glaze: None
Class: Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1
Comments: Dr. Alan Vince - identified this as Malvern Chaseware HER (Hereford) B1 and states that the most common inclusions within the fabric consists of large angular fragments of igneous rock (up to 4.0mm across) which form up to 10% by volume of the pot. Rounded quartz (up to 1.4mm) is also common at approximately 4% by volume. Other large inclusion sometimes are 1.0mm across include rounded sandstones and metamorphic rocks. Small fragmnets of rounded chert, clay pellets, biotite, and horneblende occur, white opaque iron ore and angular quartz both less than 0.1mm are visible in section. Vessels are usually black or grey thoughout owing to reduction in the firing and the presence of carbon within the fabric.
The earliest 12th century vessels are thin-walled irregularly hand formed and roughly cylindrical cooking pots. Rims are usually everted and angular in profile while a few have a cordon just below the rim. Very little finishing is apparent. The late 12th and 13th century pots are similar although the vessels tend to become slightly larger and thicker walled with smoother profiles
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This coin has been recorded via email and the coin itself has not been seen by the FLO. Thanks are extended to the finder for their help with recording this find
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A silver medieval penny of King Henry II (AD 1154-1189) Short cross coinage (AD 1180-1278) Class 1b - AD 1180-1185. Struck by the monier Peres M at the mint in London
North: 963
Peter ReavillHenry II of England22Dormington1647HESH-5D67C1921973Crowned bust facing with sceptre which interrupts the inscription. In the inscription the C and E are round backed and closed whilst the X is small with rounded terminalsPERES M ON LVN12MEDIEVALCOINRestricted Accessfinds-92197311Short cross class 1b (N 963)26352940London61HESH-5D630DComplete1180x14221images/preavill/110310561PAS5BC5D630001D7742018-10-16T13:14:40ZShort cross contained within a circlet of pellets; within each divided quarter are four pellets conjoined in a saltire cross. In the inscription the M is square with the elements on the reverse separated by single pelletsCertainx142212Regular29CertainMEDIEVALSilver41426x17731MD1Circa29http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/MEDIEVALEnglish coin short and long cross period 1180 - 1278ProbablyHENRICVS REXCivil Parish142022-07-14T07:14:54.731ZCounty of Herefordshire1Unitary AuthorityCastPOST MEDIEVAL1Metal detectorc.jpg38904Fair135731PMUnitary AuthorityCertain4HESH3890423.81800Walford, Letton and Newtonx4104730.69County of Herefordshire110952018-10-16T12:54:18ZReturned to finderWest MidlandsCirca
Bag 8 Photo C - Musket Ball
One possible lead alloy musket shot / ball of post medieval 1600-1800 date. The ball has lost its spherical shape and possesses a relatively even surface on one half of the shot. The other has a large curving surface created by an impact from collision, as a consequence the ball resembles a crescent shape. The shot has a casting seam and spurs from the mould removed. It is a light grey colour with a relatively thick surface patina. Similar shot have been dated to the later post medieval period however the date range should extend into the early modern period as similar projectiles were used in firearms throughout this period. Musket balls are discussed in Courtney's "Small Arms Accessories of the Mid-Seventeenth Century" (1988) and on page 202 of "Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition" by Geoff Egan (2005).
This find was discovered within an area where significant numbers of other shot have been discovered. It is unusual in shape and it is possible that it may be a very distorted weight or represent scrap lead which has been recycled. It is recorded as a musket shot due to this being the most likely identification.
The musket ball measures:
23.8mm in diameter and weigh 30.69 grams
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Bag 17 Photo i - Musket Ball
One lead alloy musket shot / ball of post medieval 1600-1800 date. The shot is sub-spherical in shape with a relatively even surface. The shot has a casting seam and spurs from the mould removed. It is a light grey colour with a relatively thick surface patina. Similar shot have been dated to the later post medieval period however the date range should extend into the early modern period as similar projectiles were used in firearms throughout this period. Musket balls are discussed in Courtney's "Small Arms Accessories of the Mid-Seventeenth Century" (1988) and on page 202 of "Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition" by Geoff Egan (2005).
The musket balls measure:
16.1mm in diameter and weigh 20.22 grams
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One spherical lead alloy shot / ball of probable post medieval or early modern date (1600-1800 AD). Due to the size and weight of the ball it is most likely to be from a pistol. The shot is sub spherical in shape with an uneven surface. It has clear casting seams and trimmed casting sprues from the mould. There is no evidence of the shot having been fired. It is a mid-grey colour with abraded powdery patinated surface. Similar shot has been dated to the later post medieval period however the date range should extend into the early modern period as similar projectiles were used in firearms throughout this period. Musket balls are discussed in Courtney's "Small Arms Accessories of the Mid-Seventeenth Century" (1988) and on page 202 of "Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition" by Geoff Egan (2005).
The pistol ball measures:
12.8mm in diameter and weigh 9.03 grams
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