Record ID: YORYM-C8EE5A
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim sherd of a ceramic amphora dating to the Roman period, c. AD 43-250. The sherd is roughly rectangular in plan and drop-shaped in profile. Handmade from a distinctive thick oxidised gritty fabric. The external fabric is a pale-buff pink colour with abundant grey and brown grit inclusions of <1mm. The internal fabric is a dull grey colour with these same inclusions. The breaks are well worn. The rim has a projected diameter of 170mm. The sherd measures 113.54mm in length, 47.29mm in width, 58.01mm in height, 31.89mm in thickness and 188g in w…
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bridlington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-19F033
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A piece of Roman period pottery which is probably part of an amphora. It is light brown on the surface and the fabric is grey with some varied, small inclusions. The surface is decorated with faint lines in grey - two are running parallel along the top of the piece, one runs perpendicular to that and others are arranged in a flower like pattern Dimensions: 100mm long and 80mm wide, 17mm thick. It weighs 120g
Created on: Friday 1st September 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Helsington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-47AB34
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery. Pale buff fine fabric with an oxidised internal surface, probable amphora sherd and probably spalled from a thicker sherd or vessel. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Width: 90.8mm, Weight: 24.58gms
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-3636C1
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery. Amphora, of fine buff fabric with frequent tiny glittering particles on its inner surface, body sherd. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Width: 111.5mm, Thickness (wall): 19.4mnm, Weight: 120.82gms
Created on: Monday 21st August 2023
Last updated: Monday 21st August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B64F0A
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery. Amphora fragment. Fine buff sandy fabric, sherds from a hand-formed handle or rim of an amphora. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Length: 111.5mm, Thickness: 21.4mm, Weight: 116.24gms
Created on: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B627AC
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery. Amphora fragment. Hard sandy buff fabric; body sherd. From a different fabric and vessel to NLM-B56B2E, and possibly NLM-B597C1 also. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Width: 131mm, Thickness (wall): 17.9mm, Weight: c.285gms
Created on: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B597C1
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery. Amphora fragment. Hard sandy buff fabric with frequent quartz grains to length 0.8mm; body sherd. From a different fabric and vessel to NLM-B56B2E. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Width: 200mm, Thickness (wall): 20.3mm, too heavy to weigh on existing equipment [over 500gms]
Created on: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B56B2E
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery. Amphora fragment. Fine buff fabric with pinkish internal and external margins. Basal spur with internal ring from a large imported storage vessel: amphorae were used for the supply of liquid commodities such as oil, wine and fish paste.Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Width: 98mm, Thickness (at base): 29mm, Weight: 145.27gms
Created on: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-86322B
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pottery fragment comprising one side of the neck and part of handle from a large Roman amphora, probably a Dressel 20 or related type. The fabric is hard, gritty, light brown to buff coloured with a slightly greyish core and tempered with coarse sand and occasional larger iron and calcite inclusions. The handle was around 47mm in diameter and the neck aperture would have had an internal diameter of around 80mm. All sides of the fragment have very abraded breaks.
Created on: Tuesday 13th June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 13th June 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-B202B5
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery. Amphora fragment; pale grey reduced fabric with pale salmon pink external and internal margins. Rim sherd from the mouth of a storage vessel, probably made abroad at the point of supply of wine, oil, garum or whatever the vessel contained. An everted triangular section rim projects from a mouth of aperture diameter 120mm. Fiercely abraded. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Height: 58.5mm, Width: 125mm, Weight: c.240gms
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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Record ID: LEIC-505C34
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Roman ceramic amphora, dating to c.AD 43 - 260. Rim sherd, possibly from a Dressel 20 amphora. The fabric is light orange with fine dark grey and white inclusions. It is D-shaped in section and has a curved profile. Length: 112.3 mm Width: 47.6 mm Thickness: 36.8 mm Weight: 186.34 g The Dressel 20 amphora was a globular vessel produced in Baetica, southern Spain, largely for the exportation of olive oil. Production of these vessels commenced in the 1st century and probably continued until the mid 3rd century, with the peak of importation in Britain being th…
Created on: Wednesday 18th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 19th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cotham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-907CF3
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Amphora fragment. A buff fabric with a reduced grey core, with beige surfaces and quartz inclusions. A large sherd comprising one quarter of the rim of a large handled storage jar with an estimated rim diameter of 200mm and an aperture of estimated diameter 110mm. Part of one of a pair of curved handles springs from below the rim, and then descend towards its union with the body wall [lost]. A stamped rectangular panel on the upper side of th handle bears initials read as I P F T. This sherd was kindly identified by Helen Fry of the North Lincolnshire Pottery Research Group. Suggested…
Created on: Friday 30th August 2019
Last updated: Monday 2nd September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hibaldstow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2B1BA9
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sherd from the rim and handle of an amphora. The rim is beaded and the surviving part of the handle projects from just below it. The handle is strip-like with a groove running down its outer face. The fabric is hard, fairly fine textured with few visible inclusions apart from some sparse mica and chalky fragments (
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shorne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-49D224
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery. Salmon pink fine fabric, amphora sherd, from a handle. This sherd was kindly identified by Wallace Collyer of the North Lincolnshire Pottery Research Group. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Weight: c.250gms
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 8th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Owston Ferry', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-42E556
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Derby
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman amphora comprising rim, neck, the upper part of a handle and some of the body wall. Possible Gauloise type; the handles are round in section, with no point on the arch. The rim is everted and bi-conical at the edge, flat on top. No groove beneath the rim. The fabric is pale buff with a salmon pink tint , with fine grained inclusions, some dark and angular, some micaceous. The body type is not clear from this fragment, making difficult the exact indentification of Gauloise type, the closest match to the rim and handle profile is type 14. (Archaeology Data Service:…
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2018
Last updated: Monday 29th October 2018
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Record ID: LON-84FF0A
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Roman amphora handle from an amphora dating from the second century. The handle is probably from Dressel 20 amphora which would have been large and globular with cylindrical handles and a prominent beaded or angular rim. The amphora would have probably contained olive oil and was produced in the Baetica region of Spain. The fabric is light pink throughout. Dimensions: length: 140.23mm; width: 58.90mm; thickness: 40.86mm; weight: 438g. References: Callender, M. H., 1950. Roman Alviphorae, Durham theses, Durham University. Birley A. R., 2003. The Excavations of 20…
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Record ID: LON-84A3A2
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Roman amphora base dating from the second or third century. The base is probably from Dressel 20 amphora which would have been large and globular with cylindrical handles and a prominent beaded or angular rim. The amphora would have probably contained olive oil and was produced in the Baetica region of Spain.The fabric is light pink throughout. The white concretion is Thames 'race' which has adhered to the exterior of the amphora. Dimensions: length: 156.30mm; width: 108.47mm; weight: 452g. References: Callender, M. H., 1950. Roman Alviphorae, Durham theses, Durham…
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Record ID: LON-762E72
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Roman amphora handle probably from a Dressel 20 amphora dating from the first half of the second century. The handle has part of the stamp [LI]VNI.M / [MEL]ISS[I.P] of the 'Two Iunii Melissi', both the masculine and feminine form name appears on the stamp and it probably belonged to a firm owned by a husband and wife, or a brother and sister, they were active from AD 120-160 in Baetica near the modern-day city of Seville, Spain. The amphora would have most likely carried either olive oil or possibly wine. The fabric is light pink throughout. Amphora's with a similar s…
Created on: Wednesday 18th April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 19th April 2018
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Record ID: LON-D489A3
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman ceramic neck ring from an amphora dating from the 1st-3rd century AD. The fabric is buff coloured and granular. Dimensions: diameter: 105.49mm; height: 39.61mm; weight: 254g References: Callender, M. H., 1950. Roman Alviphorae, Durham theses, Durham University. Birley A. R., 2003. The Excavations of 2001-2002: Volume I. Vindolanda Research Report 2003. Bardon Mill, Vindolanda Trust. Funari P. A., 1996. Dressel 20 Inscriptions from Britain and the Consumption of Spanish Olive Oil, BAR 250. Funari P. A.,1999. Dressel 20 Stamps from the Verulamium Museum. Rev. do …
Created on: Monday 5th March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 20th February 2019
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Record ID: LON-ED590F
Object type: AMPHORA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman ceramic neck ring from an amphora dating from the 1st-3rd century AD. Dimensions: diameter: 101.76mm; height: 42.24mm; weight: 146g References: Callender, M. H., 1950. Roman Alviphorae, Durham theses, Durham University. Birley A. R., 2003. The Excavations of 2001-2002: Volume I. Vindolanda Research Report 2003. Bardon Mill, Vindolanda Trust. Funari P. A., 1996. Dressel 20 Inscriptions from Britain and the Consumption of Spanish Olive Oil, BAR 250. Funari P. A.,1999. Dressel 20 Stamps from the Verulamium Museum. Rev. do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, Sao Paulo, 9. p143-…
Created on: Friday 17th November 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 25th April 2023
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