Ceramic vessel. Pottery bowl with cylindrical body, narrowing to a flat foot and roughly formed rim. [MOBB [OPS move] 09/05/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Ceramic vessel. Pottery bowl with cylindrical body, narrowing to a flat foot and roughly formed rim. [MOBB [OPS move] 09/05/2016]
Long description: Small rough medium grained ceramic pot with limey coating adhering inside and out. Reconstructed in places. [JW [Excav. PR] 11/02/2013]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Greater London River Thames
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date
Date collected: By 1874
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Material Lime, Material Clay, Process Handbuilt
Dimensions: Height: max 76 mm, Diameter: max 115 mm, Weight 288 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.35.38 PR Cat other PR nos: 2035
Research and responses: This object is simply recorded as from the Thames. It is probably from London, but maybe from elsewhere along the course of the river. [Dan Hicks 11/11/2013]
Associated publications: Image published as part of an image gallery on the Arts and Humanities Research Board website http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Image-Gallery/Pages/ImageObjectText.aspx as part of the project image/object/text. Image with the caption written by Dan Hicks (Lecturer Curator in archaeology, Pitt Rivers Museum) 'This shell-tempered ceramic bowl has been partially reconstructed after Pitt-Rivers acquired it, and bears one single word, painted onto the outside: THAMES. Many objects from Pitt-Rivers’ collection are recorded simply with the provenance of the River Thames – which may mean an object recovered from dredging the river, may imply it was found on the Thames foreshore in London or along the banks of the river further upstream, or even may represent a purposefully vague provenance given by a dealer that usefully removes any possibility of coming from privately owned land. Whatever the case for this object, there is no doubt that today the modern text has become an integral part of this medieval object. (Pitt Rivers Museum Accession Number 1884.35.38)' [FB 12/08/2014]

Search terms: Pottery, Vessel, Narcotic, Betel Accessory, Lime Accessory