Record ID: LON-044968
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval pottery body sherd from a Frechen stoneware bottle- a Bartmann or “Bellarmine” dating to the 16th century. The sherd includes part of the applied oval portrait medallion showing a man’s profile facing left within a border comprising a ring of twisted rope and then scalloped drapery. The figure is wearing a neck ruff and a helmet. The fabric is grey with a brown salt glaze on the external surface. Dimensions: weight: 44.05g. Identified by Roy Stephenson Medieval and Post Medieval pottery specialist.
Created on: Monday 8th February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-65F408
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval pottery fragment, the anthropomorphic figure from a Coarse Border ware lobed cup (14th century AD). The find consists of the torso, head, shoulders and arms of an anthropomorphic figure of indeterminate sex. The figure has been made from one piece of clay drawn into a sausage-shape, with the arms pinched out. The head has been formed by pinching the upper area at an angle, so that the area of the face has been formed by the thumb whilst the forefinger was at the back of the head. At the base of the reverse of the head, there is an impression made by a forefinger. Of the faci…
Created on: Monday 14th December 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-521AE1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Post Medieval pottery vessel, probably a locally made version of North Italian slip ware dating to the 1640s. The fabric is a pale buff colour with a dark red glaze on the external surface with white slip feathered decoration. The internal surface is not glazed but does have the same white slip decoration. There is a large, heavy, wedge-shaped inclusion between the internal and external surfaces. It is probably that this vessel was mis-fired and it is a fragment of two vessels that are concreted together. The slipped internal surface is the external surface in reverse…
Created on: Tuesday 1st December 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-88C154
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval pottery sherd from a stoneware Bartmann jug produced in Frechen, Germany (1600-1700). The sherd is decorated with the lower bearded part of the face mask typical for a Bartmann jug. The fabric is a pale biscuit-colour with a dark brown iron wash under coarse speckled salt-glaze. Dimensions: weight: 13.92g. Reference: Gaimster, D. 1997. German Stoneware 1200-1900. Archaeology and Cultural History. British Museum Press, London. P. 213
Created on: Wednesday 28th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-88BD66
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pottery rim sherd from a Post Medieval redware storage jar or cistern (1600-1700). The exterior of the sherd has a pattern of large thumb prints underneath the rim. The interior has been coated with a dark glaze. The vessel fabric is highly fired and a characteristic, highly-oxidised, orange-red colour. Dimensions: weight: 64.69g.
Created on: Wednesday 28th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-8896B3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pottery base sherd from a Post Medieval tin-glazed earthenware jug or mug (1630-1650). The interior of the sherd has a white slip with a clear glaze, the exterior has a purple hue to the glaze. The earthenware has been wheel-thrown and has a typical highly oxidised orange red colour. Dimensions: weight: 6.61g.
Created on: Wednesday 28th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-588D15
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, possibly Post Medieval or Modern earthenware bowl. The bowl is probably a foreign import. It is made from a buff-red earthenware fabric of moderate firing, which has failed to oxidise in the centre. The bowl has been slipped with a white ground on the interior and exterior. The interior is decorated with a stylised bird added in a blue on top along with a border of two parallel lines, set slightly beneath the rim. The top edge of the rim itself has been slipped with an ochre colour. Both surfaces of the bowl have been burnished using a hard object like a bone or stone. T…
Created on: Monday 26th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-586A47
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman base from an amphora, 1st – 2nd century AD. This amphora is type: Camulodunum 186 fabric 2848, which was made in Spain and used to transport seafoods. The base is hollow with a rounded end. The amphora when complete would have had a rounded body, large, flat handles and a wide mouth. The fabric is slightly softer and siltier than the classic Baetican fabric and has an irregular fracture. It is light beige and contains large quantities of quartz, iron rich inclusions and metamorphic rock fragments (gneiss, quartz-mica-schist), gold mica, feldspar and large rounded pieces o…
Created on: Monday 26th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-1A1D94
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large sherd of Roman pottery: probably a Severn Valley ware vessel lid (2nd – 3rd century AD). The sherd has a central handle extending vertically approximately 14.1mm. From the central handle the lid slopes gently outwards into a wide extension. The radius of the lid from the centre of the handle is approximately 74.4mm. Around the outside edge the lid has a pronounced rim which curves under and into the underside of the lid. The vessel lid has been wheel-made, upside-down like a plate or bowl, and then inverted for use. The fabric is a pale orangey-biscuit colour with a dark grit…
Created on: Friday 23rd October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-F2C048
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval pottery body sherd from a Kingston type ware vessel dating AD1230-1400. The fabric is white throughout with regular rounded quartzite inclusions. There is a patchy mid-green glaze on the external surface. It may be patchy due to post depositional damage. Dimensions: weight: 1.99g. Identified by Roy Stephenson Medieval and Post Medieval pottery specialist
Created on: Friday 9th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-F2B7C8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval – Modern pottery body sherd from a London Area Post Medieval Red Ware vessel dating 1580 – 1900. The fabric is dark red with lighter red margins and a thick brown glaze on both external and internal surfaces. Dimensions: weight: 3.89g. Identified by Roy Stephenson Medieval and Post Medieval pottery specialist
Created on: Friday 9th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-6670D2
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval salt glaze stoneware teapot (late 18th century). The teapot has a tapering body with a small flaring foot, multi-faceted spout and a small section of moulded reel decoration at the base of the handle. The lid is missing. Dimensions: length: 99.22mm; diameter: 107.95mm
Created on: Wednesday 3rd June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-666F54
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval tin-glazed biscuit ware (London Delft ware) ointment jar (mid 17th – mid 18th century). The jar has a small everted rim and rounded almost vertical sides with a small flared foot. There is a white, with a slight blue tint, tin glaze covering internal and external surfaces. Due to the findspot this ointment jar was probably produced at the kiln site at Gravel Lane, Southwark. Dimensions: length: 66.98mm; rim diameter: 79.39mm; weight: 119.21g. Identified by Roy Stephenson Medieval and Post Medieval pottery specialist.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-665635
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four Post Medieval tin-glazed biscuit ware (London Delft ware) small ointment jars (mid 17th – mid 18th century). All the jars have small everted rims and rounded, tapering bodies with a small flared foot. There is a white, with a slight blue tint, tin glaze covering internal and external surfaces. Due to the findspot these ointment jars were probably produced at the kiln site at Gravel Lane, Southwark. Dimensions: length of one: 27.00mm; rim diameter of one: 33.27mm; total weight: 63.56g. Identified by Roy Stephenson Medieval and Post Medieval pottery specialist.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-EAF7A7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval pottery rim and handle sherd from a Surrey/Hampshire border ware handled bowl (1550-1600). The fabric is white throughout and the vessel has a mottled mid green glaze on the internal surface with splashes marking the external surface. The strap handle attaches at the rim and just below the neck on the body. Dimensions: weight: 100.26g. Identification by Jacqui Pearce, Museum of London Archaeology Specialist Services, Medieval pottery specialist.
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-EAEFA3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval pottery rim and handle sherd from a Surrey/Hampshire border ware handled bowl (1550-1600). The fabric is white throughout and the vessel has a mottled mid green glaze on the internal surface with splashes marking the external surface. The strap handle attaches at the rim and just below the neck on the body. Dimensions: weight: 100.26g. Identification by Jacqui Pearce, Museum of London Archaeology Specialist Services, Medieval pottery specialist.
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-EAE2C2
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval pottery rim sherd from a Martabani ware jar (1700-1800). The external surface is decorated with ribbing and rouletting. The fabric has a grey core with a red external margin. There is a yellow/green glaze on the internal surface and the upper part of the external surface. At the shoulder on the external surface the glaze changes to a deeper green. Martabani ware is made in Burma. Dimensions: weight: 634.2g. Identification by Jacqui Pearce, Museum of London Archaeology Specialist Services, Medieval pottery specialist.
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-EA53B6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval pottery body sherd from a stoneware jug (early 16th century). The sherd is from the neck of the jug. It has part of the sharp neck cordon and moulded rose-plant decoration around the body. When complete the jug would have had a turned flat base, strap handle and a flat pewter lid. The sherd has a cream fabric with a salt-glaze on the external surface. Vessels with similar decoration were made in Cologne c. 1520-1545; however, they have a buff-grey fabric with light brown surface under a pitted salt glaze (Gaimster 1997:194 no. 30). Dimensions: weight: 23.53g. …
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-EA4AC1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval base sherd from a London area Post Medieval slipped red ware jar or chamber pot (16th century). The vessel has a red fabric with a grey core in the thickest areas of the vessel. The internal surface has a thick mottled green glaze. On the external surface there is a red slip coating and spots of the glaze. There are some cracks in the vessel walls and the glaze has sunk into them. Dimensions: external diameter of base: 113.34mm; weight: 177.54g. Identification by Jacqui Pearce, Museum of London Archaeology Specialist Services, Medieval pottery specialist.
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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