- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ceramic rim and base sherd
- Long description
- Wall (rim to base) sherd of medium grained ceramic with mineral and grog temper. Previously attached to 1884.136.2. 11 - glue remains on one edge of the sherd. [CG [Excav. PR] 13/05/2013]
- Geographical reference
- 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: Early Iron Age
- Date collected
- 1878
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 15 mm, Width: max 37 mm, Length: max 54 mm, Weight 20 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.136.2.12 PR no.: 242/ 12099 243/ 12099 244/ 12099 245/ 12099 246/ 12099 247/ 12099 248/ 12099 249/ 12099 28/ 8386
- Research and responses
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]
1884.136.2.12
Ceramic rim and base sherd
1884.136.2.12
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