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Record ID: HAMP-58FA26
Object type: BRIQUETAGE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Briquetage assemblage that is a sample of a larger collection gathered on a beach, from which multiple Romano-British artefacts have been recovered. This assemblage appears to be the indicative of Late Iron Age or early Roman salt works in the area 1st century BC to 1st century AD. The assemblage includes the following:
a) 4 large sub-rectangular ceramic 'square rod type' struts of light reddish brown ceramic building material that has been tempered with an organic material (imprints of grasses and seeds visible), flint and sand. These objects…
Created on: Tuesday 30th May 2023
Last updated: Friday 2nd June 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-4084CC
Object type: BRIQUETAGE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small fragment of ceramic of probable Iron Age date, either briquetage or a vessel. Hard fired, a fine matrix with frequent large (max 6.5mm) angular stone inclusions (limestone?). The dark grey/black surface is smooth amongst the protruding inclusions and may be the original surface. The other face is beige-grey colour and the inclusions are much more pronounced, suggesting it is the inner fabric of the original item. The thickness of the fragment is inconsistent, varying from 6.5mm (pointed end) to 12.5mm (straight edge). The straight edge is vertical and seems to be the&…
Created on: Tuesday 5th July 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Warsash', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: HAMP-C5483F
Object type: BRIQUETAGE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four fragments of Iron Age briquetage.
1: Circular/sub-cuboid bar. Incomplete, fine fabric, black/dark grey outer and one end broken to reveal red core. Diameter 38mm. Length 94mm. Weight 143g.
2: Cuboid bar. Incomplete, fine fabric, black/dark grey outer and both ends broken to reveal red core. Diameter 38mm. Length 58mm. Weight 119g.
3: Flat sub-rectangular, a fragment of a larger item. Two edges (top and left as in photo) are original with a flat profile and lightly sanded. The other two edges are broken, likely historic breaks as they are waterworn. Thickness: 14 t…
Created on: Wednesday 29th June 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Warsash', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LIN-BC9B3E
Object type: BRIQUETAGE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman briquetage.
A hand made ceramic artefact used in the process of salt production and known as briquetage. The artefact is a supporting pillar. The artefact is sub-rectangular in shape with a flat circular end. The pillar has an orange core and a thin reduced (orange) surface. The process of salt production resulted in the pillar being exposed to repeated episodes of high temperature which has resulted in the fabric of the artefact, particularly the flat end, becoming more porous and resembling pumice stone.
Dimensions: Length 46.50 mm, width 44.24 mm tapering to 40.44 …
Created on: Monday 23rd November 2020
Last updated: Friday 11th December 2020
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Record ID: SOM-E07A70
Object type: BRIQUETAGE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Roman ceramic briquetage.
The fragment is irregular in plan and sub-rectangular in cross section although it has lost one of its original surfaces. The fragment's surviving surface is white-brown and shows some abrasion the pits of which show dark grey patination. The opposite surface, while damaged shows traces of black sooting.
The fragment has a medium fired fabric, with frequent irregularly shaped and poorly sorted grog temper (
Created on: Tuesday 15th January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 17th January 2019
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Record ID: SOM-4874C1
Object type: BRIQUETAGE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Roman ceramic briquetage, a bar fragment, probably daitng to c. AD 250-410. The bar is sub-rectangular in plan, with relatively abraded breaks, and rectangular in cross section, measuring 43.3mm by 42.0mm. The fabric of the bar is consistent with other briquetage fragments in the same assemblage, being oxidised and with an extremely abundant, coarse organic temper, varying in colour between brick red, lilac and buff-white; the variation in colour caused by chlorides in the salt bleaching of the iron oxides in the clay.
Total weight: 133.47g.
A number of salterns ar…
Created on: Friday 2nd February 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th March 2018
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Record ID: SOM-4826B1
Object type: BRIQUETAGE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three fragments of Roman ceramic briquetage slabs, probably daitng to c. AD 250-410. The slabs are irregular in plan and flat in cross section, with one likely surviving to its original thickness (no.1: c. 21.3mm thick; 89.5g in weight), the other two fragments (no. 2: 15.1mm thick; 64.6g in weight; no. 3: 12.0mm thick; 67.7g in weight) having lost their original surfaces. The fragments are of a uniform fabric, oxidised and with an extremely abundant, coarse organic temper. In colour the fabric varies both between and on fragments, ranging from brick red, to lilac and buff-white; the …
Created on: Friday 2nd February 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th March 2018
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Record ID: NLM-FE218F
Object type: BRIQUETAGE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Ceramic possible briquetage. Grey reduced sandy fabric, strainer fragment. A sherd from a hard-fired flat plate with four complete holes of diameter 4mm which have been pushed through the clay before firing from one side; the edges of further similar holes also appear. The underside of the object appears as if intensely heated. Strainers of this type may have been used in coastal salt production, though when brought to an inland context this object may have been adapted to some other use. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410.
Thickness: 10.1mm, Weight: 9.65gms
Created on: Wednesday 6th September 2017
Last updated: Monday 30th July 2018
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This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: SOM-0A0117
Object type: BRIQUETAGE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fourteen fragments of probable Roman briquetage dating to the period c. AD 43 - 410. The fabric is thick and coarse with red iron ore inclusions. It is oxidised pink shading to brown on the surface and reduced dark grey at the core. The fragments probably deriver from a lining or ceramic vessel used in salt production.
Collective weight: 66.68g
Created on: Tuesday 2nd August 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd August 2016
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Record ID: SOM-787DE2
Object type: BRIQUETAGE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of probable briquetage. The fabric is thick and coarse with red iron ore inclusions. It is oxidised pink on the upper surface and reduced dark grey at the core. It has a rim like curve at one end, possibly the edge of a lining or ceramic vessel used in salt production.
Weight: 197 g
Date: Roman - c. 100 - 400
Created on: Thursday 14th July 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd August 2016
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Record ID: SOM-74CCA5
Object type: BRIQUETAGE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of briquetage of Roman date. The briquetage, coarse ceramic material, is irregular in shape with only one surviving original flat surface. This latter is more oxidised than the core and bears imprints possibly of organic material.
Briquetage is the name for coarse fired ceramic objects, evaporating vessels and supporting pillars, used in the production of salt. There is a known saltworks at East Huntspill and therefore unsurprising that this fragment was found here. The ceramic supporting pillar is not closely datable but salt working is known in this area from the…
Created on: Wednesday 4th September 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 4th September 2013
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Record ID: SOM-A54AE2
Object type: BRIQUETAGE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of briquetage probably a supporting pillar and Roman in date. The briquetage, coarse ceramic material, is cylindrical in shape with broken flat ends. It is 118.1mm long, 43.2mm in diameter and weighs 206g.
Briquetage is the name for coarse fired ceramic objects, evaporating vessels and supporting pillars, used in the production of salt. There is a known saltworks at East Huntspill PRN 10979 and therefore unsurprising that this fragment was found here. The ceramic supporting pillar is not closely datable but salt working is known in this area from the 3rd to the 4th century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 12th February 2013
Last updated: Monday 13th May 2013
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Record ID: SF-94D716
Object type: BRIQUETAGE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of fired clay or tile briquetage of Roman date. It has a coarse but relatively hard red fabric fired dark brown on one face (interior) and with organic and gritty inclusions. The exterior(?) surface has fingertip decoration formed from a series of parallel grooves that have traces of salt on their surfaces. It measures 102.05mm in length, 92.29mm in width, 19.84mm in thickness and 188.74g in weight. This is probably a fragment of Roman briquetage utilised for salt working, c.43-410 AD.
Created on: Thursday 25th October 2012
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Tolleshunt Darcy', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: CAM-5C50E1
Object type: BRIQUETAGE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hand made ceramic artefact used in the process of salt production and known as briquetage. The artefact is a supporting pillar. The finder retrieved five and a half of these supporting pillars and handed one in to the Portable Antiquities Scheme for recording onto the database. The artefact is trapezoidal in shape although this example is slightly more sub-rectangular than the others (see photograph provided by the finder).
The pillar has a reduced (grey) core and a thin reduced (orange) surface 2mm thick increasing to a maximum of 20mm at the corners. The process of…
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2010
Last updated: Sunday 18th July 2010
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This findspot is known as 'Guyhirn', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: ESS-93AF01
Object type: BRIQUETAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible fragment of late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age briquetage. Fragment of ceramic with burnt flint inclusions, which is trapezoid in plan, with a rectangular cross section. The peice is 106.58mm long, 62.51mm wide, 19.42mm thick and it weighs 174.55 grams.
Created on: Friday 5th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WMID5354
Object type: BRIQUETAGE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Published
Oxidised ware with moderate grey rock inclusions (up to 2-3mm) and white rock inclusions, plus clay pellet grog up to 5mm.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd October 2002
Last updated: Friday 21st April 2017
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