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1884.35.60.72

Ceramic sherd

1884.35.60.72

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Collection type
Object
Description
Ceramic sherd
Long description
Body sherd from an oxidised fired [brownish orange in colour] handmade vessel of coarse ware pottery, originally identified as an urn. Smoothed outer surface. <5% white mineral temper. [CG [Excav. PR] 29/01/2013]
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 5 mm, Width: max 25 mm, Length: max 28 mm, Weight 4 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.35.60.72
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."

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