1884.137.1.97

Collection type

Object

Description

Ceramic sherd

Long description

Body sherd of medium grained ceramic with mineral temper. Reduce fired with oxidised surface. [CG [Excav. PR] 06/03/2013]

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 Glynde Mount Caburn "Upper rampart; body"

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: Iron Age

Date collected

1877 Sept

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Pottery

Dimensions

Thick: max 7 mm, Width: max 38 mm, Length: max 51 mm, Weight 14 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.137.1.97 PR no.: ? 250/ 12099 - 285/ 12099

Research and responses

See 1884.136.1 for museum documentation of these objects. Pitt Rivers excavated Mt Caburn with between three and five men over two short seasons. A Relic Table was produced for the site [the Relic table was a tabulated record of every feature excavated] [See Bowden, 1991: 85][Thompson, 1977: 55] Note that there are a number of entries in Delivery Catalogue II pages 331 - 334 and 336 - 337 under the title 'Collection from Mount Caburn' which are listed and in many cases given a related fraction number, none of which match fraction numbers given in the accession books. It seems probable that some of the unmatched Mount Caburn objects could be matched to these delivery catalogue entries but until each object is found and given a detailed computerised catalogue entry it will not be possible to match further. Details of the entries on pages 331-4 are listed in PR Catalogue Part II [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

Pitt Rivers published his two seasons work at Mount Caburn in the journal Archaeologia in 1881. Full reference: Pitt Rivers, A H L Fox. 1881. Excavations at Mount Caburn Camp, near Lewes, conducted in 1877 and 1878. Archaeologia 46: 423 - 495. [MN 15/06/2009]

The fortifications at Mount Caburn [TQ 4443 0891] are recorded on the English Heritage maintained National Monuments Record under monument no. 405932. The record is accessible online, see http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=405932. [MN 15/06/2009]

Associated publications

Lane Fox, A. 1881. Excavations at Mount Caburn camp near Lewes, conducted in 1877 and 1878. Archaeologia 46: 423-495. [Dan Hicks 03/09/2013]

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