- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ceramic sherd
- Long description
- Body sherd from a reduce fired, hand-made vessel of coarse ceramic. The outer surface of the sherd is oxidised [mid yellowish brown]. <10% mineral temper. Remains of glue and paper on one side indicating the sherd was attached to a ?display board. [CG [Excav. PR] 25/01/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England Surrey Guildford Whitmoor Common Bronze Age barrow
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Bronze Age
- Date collected
- 1877 May
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 17 mm, Width: max 28 mm, Length: max 53 mm, Weight 21 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.35.62.4
- Research and responses
Pitt Rivers excavated two barrows on Whitmore Common in May 1877 [Bowden, 1991: 83] NB However note date of November given for 1884.123.67. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
1884.35.62.4
Ceramic sherd
1884.35.62.4
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