Ceramic tile fragment.

Collection type: Object
Description: Ceramic tile fragment.
Long description: Fragment of a terracotta ceramic tile with three raised band on one of the surfaces. [CG [Excav. PR] 13/05/2013]
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 Ranscombe Camp "Ditch" "2nd stratum 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
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Material Clay, Process Handbuilt
Dimensions: Thick: max 29 mm, Width: max 35 mm, Length: max 63 mm, Weight 59 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.136.4.6 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]

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