- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ceramic sherd
- Long description
- Body sherd of medium grain ceramic with mineral and grog temper. [JW [Excav. PR] 13/05/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England East Sussex Lewes Glynde Ranscombe Camp "Ditch" "top of"
- 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, uncertain Archaeological period: Romano-British, uncertain
- Date collected
- 1878 July 11
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 8 mm, Width: max 17 mm, Length: max 35 mm, Weight 6 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.136.8.18 PR no.: 242/ 12099 243/ 12099 244/ 12099 245/ 12099 246/ 12099 247/ 12099 248/ 12099 249/ 12099 28/ 8386
- Research and responses
See 1884.136.1 [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]See 1884.136.1. it is not clear whether these items have been numbered. If they have then these flakes have all been given the number 1884.136.8 but if they have not it would be better to assign separate numbers as here [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Ranscombe Camp [TQ 4363 0907] is an unfinished Iron Age univallate hillfort with evidence of 2nd century AD Romano British occupation. The site is recorded on the English Heritage National Monuments Record under monument no. 405859. The record can be accessed online at http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=405859. [MN 22/07/2009]-
1884.136.8.18
Ceramic sherd
1884.136.8.18
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