Sherd from large, thick-walled storage jar - decorated with chevron incised before firing. Dark grey almost black in colour. [ASh [OPS move] 30/1/2018]

Collection type: Object
Description: Sherd from large, thick-walled storage jar - decorated with chevron incised before firing. Dark grey almost black in colour. [ASh [OPS move] 30/1/2018]
Geographical reference: Italy
Europe > Southern Europe > Italy; Puglia [Apulia] Provincia di Foggia Vignate Fraccacreta, San Severo
Person: Field collector Peter Darrell Rider Williams-Hunt; Field collector John Spencer Purvis Bradford; PRM source Peter Darrell Rider Williams-Hunt; PRM source John Spencer Purvis Bradford
Date / Period: Date made: 6000-5000 BC?, uncertain Archaeological period: Neolithic
Date collected: ? June 1945
Acquisition information: Donated: 1946
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Incised, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Decorated
Dimensions: Width: max 40 mm, Length: max 59 mm, Height: max 24 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1946.2.17
Research and responses: This collection of material from near San Severo was examined by Dr Simon Stoddard, University of Cambridge, as part of the Fell Funded Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections project in February 2010. He advised that "the Neolithic ditch deposits from San Severo are rather fragmented (although the lithics are in better condition than the pottery). These appear to belong to the earlier part of the Neolithic, perhaps the sixth millennium BC". [AS 04/03/2010]
John Bradford and Williams-Hunt mention their trial excavation at "the selected test-site, near San Sevcro" in a 1946 paper titled 'Siticulosa Apulia' published in the journal Antiquity [vol. 20, no. 80 page: 191–200]. The article can be accessed online at http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/020/Ant0200191.htm. [MN 13/08/2009]

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