Ceramic sherd

Collection type: Object
Description: Ceramic sherd
Long description: Body sherd from a reduced fired [black] wheel-thrown vessel of fine pottery with red outer surface, originally identified as an urn. <10% organic and grog temper. Decorated with parallel linear comb marks. [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 East Sussex Lewes Seaford
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: Romano-British
Date collected: 1876
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Thrown
Dimensions: Thick: max 5 mm, Width: max 50 mm, Length: max 57 mm, Weight 19 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.37.63.5
Research and responses: Pitt Rivers conducted archaeological digs at Seaford Camp during 1876.
Pitt Rivers 'Excavations in the camp and tumulus at Seaford Sussex' Journal of the Anthropological Institute 6 [1876] 287 - 299: 'In this section is shown the position of the two large urns I was able to extract from the matrix without injury. One (fig 2 pl xvii) a Roman vessel, wheel turned about 9 in in height and elaborately ornamented with zigzag lines was found 2ft 6 in beneath the surface. The rim was broken before interment and remended by a piece of clay very rudely pressed on. The other {fig 1 fl xviii) found at 3ft 6 in from the surface was of ruder workmanship also wheelturned but made with less care than the former and a foot high. Whilst excavating the last we obtained very clear evidence that an older urn had been broken up in the process of depositing it in the grave ... Both urns contained burnt bones ... [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

Search terms: Vessel, Pottery, Sherd