1884.140.1323.7

Collection type

Object

Description

Ceramic pellet

Long description

Ceramic pellets that have become bloated due to exposure to high temperatures. [CG [Excav. PR] 29/01/2013]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

England Kent Thanet Broadstairs St Peter's brick pit near Reading Street

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Date made: Unknown Archaeological period: Mesolithic, uncertain Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain

Date collected

1868 Sept

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884 Found unentered: 25/01/2013

Materials and processes

Material Pottery, Process Burnt, Process Fire-Hardened

Dimensions

Thick: max 20 mm, Width: max 25 mm, Length: max 30 mm, Weight 12 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.140.1323.7

Research and responses

Note that Pitt Rivers spent some time in east Kent (including the Isle of Thanet) in September 1868 [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

Pitt Rivers published a paper on his findings in Thanet in 1868. Full reference: Lane Fox, A. 1868. ‘On some flint implements found associated with Roman remains in Oxfordshire and the Isle of Thanet’ Journal of the Ethnological Society 1:1-12: 'a cluster of about thirty small pellets, averaging an inch in diameter, the material and use of which I have not been able to ascertain-they were at a depth of six feet nine inches from the surface, exactly over what appeared to be the centre of the pit;' (Pg. 9). [CG [Excav. PR] 23/01/2013]

Associated publications

Lane Fox, A. 1869. On some flint implements found associated with Roman remains in Oxfordshire and the Isle of Thanet. Journal of the Ethnological Society 1:1-12

Search terms: Pottery, Unidentified Object