Record ID: SOM-70271E
Object type: PITCHER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of the body and the base of the handle of a large Medieval glazed pitcher dating to the 12th century. The piece has a high fired buff to pale orange fabric with remains of olive green glaze on the outside. The applied rod handle is circular in cross section, flattened and squeezed towards the base with a thumb impression, now partly missing. The outer face of the handle is slashed down the entire front and around the squashed base. The slashes run in two rows down the handle, angling downwards form the centre. Those on the left row are deeper, wider and more widely space. Those o…
Created on: Thursday 11th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 11th July 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-4FDE28
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three body sherds that refit to become one fragment of a Medieval cooking pot dating to c. AD 1150 to 1350. The sherds are both highly abraded and have been reburnt giving them a hard brittle feel. Each of the sherds are predominantly reddish orange in colour with one large surface being a burnt blackish brown colour from burning. Each sherd has common rounded ironstone and patinated chert inclusions up to 2mm and 2.5mm respecively. When refitted the fragments total length is 38.6mm, while their total width is 28.6mm. their maximum thickness is 7.4mm while they weigh a total of 8.64 g…
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2019
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Petherton DW', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-1C14A8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body sherd probably from a glazed medieval open vessel. The piece is now an irregular quadrilateral shape with red/orange oxidised outer surfaces and a grey core. The body has a coarse sand temper with some micaceous inclusions. The glaze is patchy and of a light-brown/green colour.
Created on: Thursday 12th September 2013
Last updated: Monday 2nd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broadhembury CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-4B0304
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim sherd probably from a medieval cooking pot (c.1100 - c. 1400 AD). It has a pale grey-brown silty fabric with c. 15 - c. 20% medium quartz temper; the inclusions have leached out slightly on the surfaces. The piece has a rolled over rim projecting at ninety degrees on the outer face (Th.: 12.45mm); below the edge it has a slightly concave inner side and convex outer. It is too small and irregular to identify the original diameter.
Created on: Tuesday 19th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 16th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bighton CP', grid reference and parish protected.