- 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
- 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 18 mm, Width: max 20 mm, Length: max 24 mm, Weight 7 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.140.1323.21
- 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 of London 1:1-12 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3014386 [Dan Hicks 19/03/2013]
Search terms: Pottery, Unidentified Object