Record ID: LANCUM-879949
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A scraper of Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age date (-2500 -800 BC) being heavily worked down and manufactured on a tertiary flake fragment of black flint, with the distal end cloudy white/light beige. The bulb of percussion is absent but there are pronounced ripples on the ventral face, which has been long retouched with four or five stepped fractures and semi-abrupt retouch on the left side, but the edge has been worn away. The dorsal face has a layered series of flake facets but very little retouch has been applied to the edges on the ventral face, except at the distal end where an…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd May 2017
Last updated: Thursday 27th July 2017
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Record ID: LANCUM-C087BC
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly everted rim fragment from a medieval vessel, in a dull brown/buff ceramic on all surfaces. The obverse has clear, minute turning marks and a probable flat 'collar' at 2 mm to 5.6 mm from the top and frequent, small porosities: there is also a significant oxidised patch of pink. The obverse has a darker brown, possibly burnished surface with some larger, but much less frequent, porosities. The fabric is light buff/brown, stratified and with some porosities, calcite, quartzite, grit, mica and oxide inclusions. It is moderately abraded and fractures are irregular. The fragment…
Created on: Friday 17th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 27th July 2017
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Record ID: LANCUM-C03E28
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An plain rim fragment from a medieval vessel, in a soft, pink ceramic on all surfaces. The fabric is oxidised pink with some minute porosities, calcite, quartzite, significant brown grit, and oxide inclusions. It is moderately abraded and fractures are irregular. The fragment is dated from c1200 to c1350 AD. It measures 12mm high, 22 mm wide, 6 mm thick; it has a rim diameter of 9 cm and weighs 1.68 gmms.
Created on: Friday 17th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 27th July 2017
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Record ID: LANCUM-AFFDAC
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An plain rim fragment most probably from a late medieval vessel, with a soft, light grey obverse that has remnant yellow glazing. The reverse surface is mid-grey with some oxidised pink on the rim top edge.The fabric is soft and a reduced light grey some porosities, calcite, significant brown grit, quartzite and oxide inclusions. It is moderately abraded and fractures are irregular. The fragment is dated from c1400 to c1750 AD. It measures 14mm high, 27 mm wide, 7 mm thick; it has a rim diameter of 35 cm and weighs 1.85 gmms.
Created on: Thursday 16th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 27th July 2017
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Record ID: LANCUM-AFB735
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An everted rim fragment most probably from a medieval vessel, with a hard, light grey obverse that has a very thin circumferential line scribed c3mm above the return of the everted rim into the vessel body, and, at c8 mm below that point, a much more pronounced circumferential groove c 0.2 mm wide. The reverse surface is light grey/white with very sparse orange random lines. The fabric is a reduced mid grey except for a light grey/pink strata underlaying the obverse surface. It has some porosities, calcite, grit and oxide inclusions. It is moderately abraded and fractures are irregula…
Created on: Thursday 16th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 27th July 2017
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Record ID: LANCUM-AF68A3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body sherd from a probably late medieval vessel, with a hard, light olive green/buff 'orange peel' surface, mottled with faint light brown: this overlays a thin white strata approx, 0.2 mm thick. The reverse is soft with a reduced grey/black surface. The fabric is soft, predominantly grey/black, but with pink and light grey, sandy, stratifications; one significant void 2mm by 1 mm by 8 mm deep, and significant calcite, oxide and some mica inclusions. It is lightly abraded, fractures are irregular and slightly laminated. It is dated to c1300 to c1600 AD and measures 24mm high, 28 mm …
Created on: Thursday 16th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 27th July 2017
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