Record ID: SOM-F03458
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Body sherd from a glazed medieval jug with applied strip on the outer face. The high fired fabric is a reduced mid-grey with a mid-buff on the inner surface only. It has common fine-medium sand temper and very occasional angular pieces of patinated chert/flint up to 1.9mm and very occasional rounded quartz up to 1.2mm. The vessel appears to be wheel thrown with an green glaze on the outer face. On the outer face is a short section of an applied strip, 9.8mm wide and appearing to curve slightly. The strip is decorated with regularly spaced diagonal slashes. The fragment has abrade…
Created on: Thursday 9th April 2020
Last updated: Thursday 9th April 2020
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Record ID: SOM-EF11B7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim sherd from a closed vessel, probably a cooking pot, dating to the 11th to 12th century. The rim is everted and has broken at the point it met the vessel wall. A small amount of wall on the inner face suggests a c. 120 degree angle between them. The upper part of the rim is widened and stands up slightly with a rounded beaded outer edge and vertical inner edge. There is also a groove running around the centre of the upper face of the rim. The fabric is hard fired and a pale orange to buff with abundent c.35% poorly sorted angular chert, some patinated, up to 2.5 with occasiona…
Created on: Thursday 9th April 2020
Last updated: Thursday 9th April 2020
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Record ID: SOM-B3ACCB
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Post Medieval clay pipe. Most of the bowl and the heel survive, but damaged and the stem is missing. The bowl is set at about 60 degrees to the stem and is swollen with convex sides becoming straight only at the top. The rim of the bowl is plain. The heel projects with a large flat, circular base. There is no makers mark visible on the heel but one side is missing to a break as is the stem, both locations used for marks. The bowl measures 25.9mm in length and 20.1mm in maximum diameter. The clay pipe weighs 6.36 g. The size and shape of the bowl and angle to the s…
Created on: Monday 6th April 2020
Last updated: Monday 6th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Somerton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B38C65
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small fragment of a post medieval clay tobacco pipe, probably dating to the period c. AD 1680 to 1730. Only the heel and a very small part of the bowl survives. The heel is flat and oval shaped, and it is still possible to identify that the heel projects very slightly from the base of the bowl. The base of the heel is stamped with the inscription [C]HAR / WEBB / IN / CHARD. One side of the projecting heel also has a raised letter C. The pipe fragment is a pale beige on the outside, white within, no part of the original inner surface remains. The pipe fragment is c.12.4mm long,…
Created on: Monday 6th April 2020
Last updated: Monday 6th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Somerton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B0EF81
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of the bowl of a post-medieval clay tobacco pipe with one profile, the heel and a very short section of the stem remaining. About 50% of the bowl has been lost to a ragged old break. There is a line of rouletting (small rectangles) just below the mouth of the bowl. The bowl is angled at about 45 degrees to the stem and swollen sided, although the complete form is unclear. The base of the heel is flat and broadly circular. It is stamped with the maker's mark, in this case the neat, seriffed incuse letters IE[F]/FRY . H/VNT. The fragment is 35.3mm long by 28.9mm high by 15.8mm thic…
Created on: Monday 6th April 2020
Last updated: Monday 6th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Somerton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-D47D19
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Ceramic rim sherd from a greyware bowl of Roman date. The rim is expanded into a pointed oval shape with slight ridges at the top and outer side. The vessel wall becomes vertical at the top to meet the rim but below this slopes at 45 degrees. The entire height of the wall is not present but it thickens markedly towards the base. The fabric is a medium grey, burnt darker grey at the rim, with abundant, c.30% fine sand temper and common (c. 10%) rounded brown pellets, probably clay pellets, inclusions. It is not visibly micaceous. The breaks are lightly abraded. It weighs 35.12g and th…
Created on: Thursday 2nd January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 2nd January 2020
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Record ID: SOM-25739D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman ceramic sherd representing one third to a quarter of a rim from a Black Burnished ware (BB1, from Wareham/Poole Harbour, Dorset) vessel, probably a jar, dating c. AD 100- 400. The fabric is hard and has a reduced black colour with some areas of very dark grey. The outer face has a black, burnished, slip. The fabric has regular sub-rounded to sub-angular translucent quartz inclusions,
Created on: Thursday 12th December 2019
Last updated: Friday 13th December 2019
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Record ID: SOM-AE4D24
Object type: TESSERA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman ceramic tessera dating to the period c. AD 43 - 410. The object is sub-square is plan and rectangular in cross section. The fabric is relatively soft fired and pale pink/orange colour with a uniform colour throughout. It is slightly micaceous with probably fine saned inclusion of less than 10% and around 10% rounded grog temper, poorly sorted with the largest visible 2.8mm across but most much smaller. The edges and corners are worn and scratched but the sides appear angled so the slightly rougher back is smaller than the smoother front. The piece is 25.2mm in length, 23.7mm …
Created on: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Montacute', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-AE1DFA
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and abraded Roman tile sherd with very large flint inclusion dating to AD 40-410. The sherd is bright orange with a paler orange to grey core and c.10% or less fine sand temper. To one corner is an inclusion of flint 13.2 by 9/9mm across. The flint is mid grey with some evidence of fire daamge, presuambly from firing. The tile is 15. 6mm thick and weighs 27.1g.
Created on: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Montacute', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-ADC047
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman ceramic rim sherd from a Black Burnished ware (BB1, from Wareham/Poole Harbour, Dorset) vessel, probably a jar, dating c. AD 100- 400. The fabric is hard and has a reduced very dark grey colour throughout. It has a fine sandy temper with very occasional quartz grit (
Created on: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Montacute', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-ABF793
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Body sherd of a Medieval open vessel (cooking pot) probably dating to c. AD 1200 to 1400. The sherd has mid-orange-buff surfaces with a mid-grey reduced core and relatively fresh breaks. The fabric is slightly micaceous and has common (15%) rounded quartz up to 1.5,mm and c. 5% angular, patinated poorly sorted chert (up to 2.8mm). Occasional more amorphous white material up to 1.5mm. The body sherd is from the neck where the body constricts and then widens to the everted rim. It is too small to estimate the diameter and weighs 13.06g. It is probably a Greensand Derived fabric, l…
Created on: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2019
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Record ID: SOM-AB85B9
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The incomplete heel of a post-medieval clay tobacco pipe and vestigial bowl. The bowl has been largely lost to a ragged old break. The base of the heel is flat and broadly circular. It is stamped with the maker's mark, in this case the neat, seriffed incuse letters . IEF [./FRY . H/VNT]; thre is possibly part of a ropework border above. The fragment is 15.9mm by 16.7mm by 13.8mm and weighs 1.43g. The maker's name, Jeffry Hunt, is well documented in the local literature with examples known from Taunton (Leach 1984, 145-146; refs. 17, 18), dated c. AD 1650-1690.
Created on: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 17th December 2019
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Record ID: SOM-6C4F1F
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base sherd from a probably Medieval jug with internal speckled slightly olive green glaze of probably 14th to early 15th century date. Well fired pale orange-buff fabric with sparse very fine sand temper and occasional white, probably calcareous, inclusion up to 1mm. The base is flat with some glaze splashes and a slight projecting expanded rim level with the rest of the base. Above this base the sides are constricted before expanding out again. The piece is highly abraded and weighs 17.7g.
Created on: Saturday 9th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 4th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Molton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-6A608E
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of 24 fragments of broadly 18th century pottery found in the same area with some probably late 17th century pieces, total weight 550g. All are highly abraded. The majority are local, North Devon wares, mostly coarse wares of at least two fabrics and some finer wares. The form numbers below refer to the Type series given in Allen 1984 Figure 63 . There are a few imported wares including two fragments of Westerwald style stoneware, one tin glazed plate or bowl and two fragments of Bristol slip decorated wares. One potentially Medieval jug fragment and one copper alloy vessel rim…
Created on: Saturday 9th November 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Molton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C9A6C4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fourteen pieces of glazed red eathenware vessels dating to the end of the 17th to first half of the 18th century all found together in an area of the garden with a wine bottle and pipes of similar date. Calcereous deposits suggest highly acidic environment with ash, ie dung heap or latrine. The pieces mostly seem to be of the same fabric, high fired, dark to mid orange with occasional mid to dark grey thin cores and occasional (c.5%) fine sand inclusions including very occasional very fine white quartz. The pieces mostly have very unworn breaks, most old but a few fresh. The breaks…
Created on: Saturday 14th September 2019
Last updated: Saturday 14th September 2019
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Record ID: SOM-3E3ACD
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small plug or foot in Roman greyware dating to AD 43-400 with a part vitrified surface, possibly part of waster or kiln furniture but given the findspot more probably a piece with post production fire damage. The high fired fabric is a medium grey with abundant fine sand and common angular white quartz inclusions up to 1mm and occasional angular black stone inclusions up to 1mm. The piece is a small part of the body with a truncated conical projection. The end of the conical bit and broken sides of the body have semi-vitrified surfaces. The breaks are highly abraded and it weighs 8.8…
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 14th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Martock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-2D9E71
Object type: JUG
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One body sherd of a late Medieval glazed jug or possibly early post medieval glazed vessel. The medium fired fabric is a pale grey with pale buff outer surface. It has few inclusions visible at 30x magnification, less than 5% fine sand, and occasional rounded hard dark crystalline stone, possibly chert, up to 1.5mm. There is a relatively even coverage of dark olive mottled glaze on the outerside. It probably dates to c. AD 1200-1600. The breaks are highly abraded and it weighs 13.74g.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 14th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Martock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-2D8336
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One body sherd of later Medieval closed vessel, possibly a jug or jar as the piece appears to be narrowing or expanding on a curve. The high fired fabric is a dark buff with a bright orange outer surface. It has abundent medium to coarse sand temper making up c. 30% of the fabric including occasional larger pieces up to 1mm. It probably dates to c. AD 1300-1600. Thre breaks are relatively fresh and it weighs 9.09g.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 13th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Martock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-D5739C
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim sherd of a Medieval open vessel (cooking pot) probably dating to c. AD 1200 to 1400. The sherd has mid-orange-buff surfaces with a mid-grey reduced core and relatively fresh breaks. The fabric is micaceous and has common (15%) rounded quartz up to 1.5,mm and c. 5% angular, patinated poorly sorted chert (up to 1.5mm). Occasional more amorphous white quartz up to 2mm. The rim is everted with an angled, flat, cut top edge slightly thickened on the outer side. It is too small to estimate the diameter and weighs 11.81g. It is probably a Greensand Derived fabric, local to the Blac…
Created on: Friday 9th August 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Somerton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-70698B
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of the rim of a large open vessel, probably a garden vessel, possibly a decorative bowl or relatively modern date. The piece is made in a coarse but high fired dark orange fabric with numerous air gaps giving a laminar structure. The fabric has sparse fine quartz temper and occasional very large, up to 6mm globular clay pellets and occasional white rounded inclusion up to 1mm, probably limestone. The rim is from a widening mouth of a vessel of large diameter. There is a beaded rounded rim on the outer side with an unusual applied decoration on the outer side. The decoration is of…
Created on: Thursday 11th July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 14th April 2020
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