Record ID: PUBLIC-5BAEEB
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small sherd of probable Roman grey ware, c.AD 43 - 410. The sherd has a smooth, hard burnished external surface and appears to have fine reflective mica inclusions. The fabric is hard fired and sandy, the surface is grey, with a reduced grey core. Undiagnostic body sherd. Heavily abraded. Weight 2.05g,
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-782F85
Object type: FLUE TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a Roman box flue tile dating to AD 43-410. The fragment has evidence of the typical combed decoration on one face. The outer face is undecorated. The fabric is orange on the outer surfaces and has a grey colour core.  There are infrequent quartz inclusions throughout the fabric.  Box flue tiles were used to create flues in the walls of building, through which hot air generated by the hypocaust system would pass. The grooves decorating the surfaces are key to improving the adhesion of the tile to wall plaster.  Measurments :- Length 72…
Created on: Thursday 25th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-77F786
Object type: TEGULA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman ceramic tegula roof tile. The tile is L-shaped in cross-section with a flange which would have supported a curved imbrex tile. The fabric is a uniform light orange throughout and includes infrequent sand and quartz inclusions.   Measurements :- Length 86.62mm , Width 91.95mm , Thickness 16.61mm , Weight 278.3g
Created on: Thursday 25th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-751991
Object type: TEGULA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman ceramic tegula roof tile. The tile is L-shaped in cross-section with a flange which would have supported a curved imbrex tile. The fabric is a uniform dark orange throughout with some grey staining on the upper surface of the tile and includes infrequent quartz inclusions.   Measurements :- Length 163mm , Width 92.32mm , Thickness 22.03mm , Weight 534.3g
Created on: Thursday 25th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-749F1A
Object type: TEGULA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
 A fragment of a Roman ceramic tegula roof tile. The tile is L-shaped in cross-section with a flange which would have supported a curved imbrex tile. The fabric is a uniform dark orange throughout, including the core with infrequent quartz inclusions.  In one corner of the base of the tegula there is a V incised into the fabric.  Measurements :- Length 134.85mm , Width 85.06mm , Thickness 17.72mm , Weight 287.8g
Created on: Thursday 25th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-EF5381
Object type: TILE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete ceramic fragment of a roof tile, most likely daying from the Medieval to Post Medieval period with the possibility of it being of Roman date (AD 43 - 1700). The tile is 17.35mm thick with a shallow arch in profile, the top surface is smooth while the underside is very rough. The surfaces and the core are dark orange to red in colour. The fabric has some mica or quartz inclusions. Measurements :- Length 99.62mm, Width 62.44mm, Thickness 17.35mm, Weight 136.5g
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2022
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-EF2792
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small body sherd from a wheel thrown Roman greyware ceramic vessel. The fabric is hard and rough and has some sandy inclusions throughout. The fabric is dark grey in colour with an oxidised red core. Measurements :- Length 63.65, Width 44.45mm, Thickness 6.32mm, Weight 22.4g.
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2022
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-EE91E1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small body sherd from a Roman greyware ceramic vessel. The sherd has clear striations indicating it to be a wheel thrown vessel. The fabric is hard and has some mica and sandy inclusions throughout. It is a dark grey colour on the inner and outer surfaces, with the core being a light grey colour.  Measurements :- Length 46.32, Width 34.68mm, Thickness 5.47mm, Weight 10.1g.
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2022
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-EE7586
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small body sherd from a Roman greyware ceramic vessel. The sherd has clear striations indicating it to be a wheel thrown vessel. The fabric is hard and has some mica and sandy inclusions throughout. It is a dark grey colour on the inner and outer surfaces, with the core being a sandy brown colour.  Measurements :- Length 51.14, Width 35.18mm, Thickness 6.81mm, Weight 14.7g.
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2022
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-EE49FD
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim sherd from a wheel thrown Roman greyware ceramic vessel.  The rim sherd has dark grey inner and outer surfaces and a light brown core. The surface has a smooth texture. There are numerous mica and quartz inclusions visble. The sherd is too small to give an accurate estimate of the original diameter. Measurements :- Length 46.02mm, Width 23.74mm, Thickness of rim 6.9mm, Weight 11.9g. 
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2022
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-99804D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An base sherd from an incomplete Roman ceramic vessel dating to circa AD 43-410. A Flat base sherd from a Roman greyware vessel showing moderate quartz inclusions. The base of the inside of the vessel has a raised area within a circular ridge. The underneath of the base has clear striations indicating it to be a wheel thrown vessel. It is a dark grey colour on the inner and outer surfaces with a clear pink colour core. The fabric has a soft texture. Basal diameter: 64.18mm; Height: 26.04mm; Thickness: 12.49mm; Weight: 64.1g
Created on: Saturday 9th July 2022
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-99323A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A base and body sherd fragment from a Roman South Gaulish Samian ware bowl. Form Dragendorff 37 dating from AD 160-220. The sherd has moulded decoration, consisting of foliatte chevron panels below a line of figures or animals whose complete form is not clear due to post depositional damage. The fragment has a pink fabric and is coated in a red slip on both the inside and outside.  Dimensions: Length: 73.12mm; Width: 58.74mm; Thickness: 10.24mm; Weight: 46.6g.
Created on: Saturday 9th July 2022
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-622BE7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim sherd fragment of a Roman Samian ceramic vessel dating to perhaps c AD 50 - 200. It is a sub triangular fragment, with  breaks on all sides but the section of the top of the rim includes a shoulder. It has a terracotta/orange/buff colour fabric, with no visible inclusions, and a satin-finish orange-red slip on the outside and on the inside. The rim above the shoulder is broken but shows a curved line  suggesting the circumference of the top, together with a portion of the broken rim above.   This crea…
Created on: Thursday 19th May 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-61852E
Object type: BELLOWS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a portion of the nozzle of a pottery kiln bellows, constructed of low-fired ceramic. Greyish fabric with organic inclusions, probably straw, grass or dung tempering which has been added to the clay, particularly visible on the smeared appearance of the interior or funnel.  The funnel end has a depression with the smeared appearance interior, draining at its base to a narrow circular hole bored through to an irregularly broken end section.  KENT-2BF9B6 shows a similar example and suggests that a wooden tube was fastened to the missing stepped narrow section, enabling …
Created on: Thursday 19th May 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-0F084B
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman Samian Ware vessel, dating to AD 43-250. It is a body sherd from an undiagnostic vessel form. It is very slightly curved in profile. The fragment has thin parellel lines made during the throwing process The interior face is plain. Both faces have the redish brown slip and the fabric has an uniform light orange colour. It is likely to be of Central or East Gaulish manufacture. Measurments:- Width 59.31mm , Height 42.84mm , Thickness 6.08mm , Weight 13.1g
Created on: Thursday 3rd March 2022
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-0E991C
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A base sherd fragment from a Roman Samian Ware dish or small bowl dating to AD 50 - 200. The sherd has a chamfered foot ring base. The fragment has a orange/red fabric and is coated in a slightly darker slip on both the inside and outside. It is likely to be of Central or East Gaulish manufacture. Measurments:- Diameter 49.93mm , Height 19.95mm, Weight 35.6g
Created on: Thursday 3rd March 2022
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BC9620
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval ceramic porringer handle dating from the 17th century. The handle is in biscuit ware and of openwork design. It has seven lobes, a single heart-shaped hole in the centre. The handle would have formed part of a tin-glazed delftware porringer with one flat handle. Other similar handles are illustrated in Tyler, Betts & Stephenson (2008: fig 131), which were from the Rotherhithe pothouse. This object was found amongst delft waste on the Thames foreshore at Rotherhithe, so likely came from this pothouse.  Dimensions: 55.51mm; width: 68.39mm; thickne…
Created on: Thursday 16th December 2021
Last updated: Friday 12th May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-1EB5CD
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete clay pipe of post-medieval date. All that remains of the pipe is the complete bowl which is small and bulbous with an incised circumferential line around the rim. There is a round spurred foot beneath the bowl with no discernable makers mark and the tube has been lost to an old and worn break. The circular hole through the tube is slightly off-centre and measures 2.97 mm in diameter and would suggest a rough date of c.1640-1670 AD. Pipes such as this are an early form in the typology of clay pipes and would generally date from the middle of the 17th century. The pipe is …
Created on: Saturday 27th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 29th November 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-EB88D4
Object type: HEARTHSTONE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete mould made post-medieval hearthstone, fire brick or decorative tile dating to the 16th-17th century. Description: The fragment of tile is sub-rectangular and has a blackened front from smoke/fire. The object has the mould pessed design of a heraldic shield of arms consisting of a two-headed imperial eagle within straight sided shield. The fabric of the brick is light orange unoxidised within, with common small flecks of chalk througout. There is some outside oxidised to the fabric though the extent isn't clear due to the mortar remains on the edges and rear. …
Created on: Tuesday 19th October 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 26th April 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-EB7222
Object type: HEARTHSTONE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragmented mould made post-medieval hearthstone, fire brick or decorative tile dating to the 16th-17th century. Description: The objecet is roughly rectangular and broken in two. The object has the mould pessed design of a pillar on a (large) pedestal, with a orb on top, with the letters G and G on either side. The pillar is flanked by two round shields of arms. The left coat of arms is the remains of the two-headed imperial eagle and on the right the coat of arms of Ernst von Beieren, Prince-Bishop of Liège( 1581-1612). The fabric of the brick is light orange unoxidised …
Created on: Tuesday 19th October 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 26th April 2022
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