1884.35.60.96

Collection type

Object

Description

Ceramic sherd

Long description

Body sherd from an oxidise 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]

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 5 mm, Width: max 21 mm, Length: max 40 mm, Weight 4 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.35.60.96

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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