1884.35.50

Collection type

Object

Description

Ceramic vase-support. Pottery bowl shaped vessel, of thick material, with slightly rounded base and flared rim. [MOBB [OPS move] 09/05/2016]

Long description

Neolithic (Chassean) ceramic vase-support from Plémont Cromlech Saucer of coarse thick pottery

Geographical reference

Jersey

Europe > Northern Europe > Jersey

Plémont Cromlech

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Neolithic Chassean C

Date collected

1870 Sept 26

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Pottery, Process Handbuilt

Dimensions

Height: max 64 mm, Diameter: max 144 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.35.50 PR Cat other PR nos: ?2361

Research and responses

Mark Patton (1987) identifies this object as acquired from Frederick K. Porter. although this is not confirmed by the primary documentation, and it is not impossible possible that Pitt-Rivers collected this item himself. Patton (1987: 466) states that Frederick K. Porter was "Vicar of Yedingham in Yorkshire, a close associate of Canon Greenwell, and for a short time, Chaplain to the Naval College in Jersey". he also indicates that Frank Lukis recorded that Porter sold "a most beautiful fibrolite celt, of great length" from Jersey to Pitt-Rivers, probably in 1870. See Patton, M. 1987. General Pitt-Rivers, Captain Lukis and Channel Island Prehistory. Antiquity 61: 466-468. http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/061/Ant0610466.htm [Dan Hicks 16/08/2013]

Associated publications

A drawing of this object appears as' Figure 1: Vase-support from Plémont Cromlech (La Hougue des Géonnais)' in Mark A. Patton 1987. General Pitt-Rivers, Captain Lukis and Channel Islands Prehistory. Antiquity 61: 466-468. [Dan Hicks 01/05/2012]

Search terms: Pottery, Vessel, Saucer