Ceramic sherd

Collection type: Object
Description: Ceramic sherd
Long description: Body sherd from a reduced fired [black] handmade vessel of coarse pottery with brown outer surfaces, originally identified as an urn. <10% white mineral temper. Old glue present. [JW [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 Surrey Guildford St Martha's Hill
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, uncertain Archaeological period: Early Iron Age, uncertain
Date collected: 1874
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Handbuilt
Dimensions: Thick: max 6 mm, Width: max 28 mm, Length: max 33 mm, Weight 5 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.35.60.19
Research and responses: Pitt Rivers lived in Guildford from 1873 - 1877. [see Chapman, 1981][Bowden, 1991: 83-4][Thompson, 1977: 124]. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
The sherds from St. Martha's Hill are discussed on page 39 and two figured on page 38 in Wood, E S. 1955. The Earth Circles on St. Martha's Hill, near Guildford. Surrey Archaeological Collections 54: 10-46. Note that Wood states "The previous attributions of these sherds to the Neolithic or Bronze Age must be abandoned."

Search terms: Vessel, Pottery, Sherd