1884.136.7.17

Collection type

Object

Description

Ceramic sherd; Samian ware rim fragment

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 Ranscombe Camp "Rampart" "interior slope"

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

1878 July 11

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Pottery, Material Clay, Process Thrown, Process Moulded, Process Decorated

Dimensions

Thick: max 19 mm, Width: max 25 mm, Length: max 57 mm, Weight 16 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.136.7.17 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 1884.136.7 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]

Search terms: Pottery, Sherd