- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ceramic sherd
- Long description
- Body sherd of medium grained ceramic with mineral temper. [JW [Excav. PR] 20/05/2013]
- 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 10 mm, Width: max 14 mm, Length: max 24 mm, Weight 3 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.136.1.261 PR no.: 242/ 12099 243/ 12099 244/ 12099 245/ 12099 246/ 12099 247/ 12099 248/ 12099 249/ 12099 28/ 8386
- Research and responses
The name of the person who added the Accession Book entries for 1884.136 is unknown to me. It is not clear whether these items have been numbered. It is also not clear why these objects were not included in the original Accession Book entries as they are completely unprovenanced and undocumented so far as the museum is concerned, perhaps they were found unaccessioned at a later date. Pitt Rivers examined the ramparts of Ranscombe Camp whilst excavating Mt Caburn, a section drawing of the ramparts was published [see Bowden, 1991: 85 and Thompson, 1977: 55][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]
1884.136.1.261
Ceramic sherd
1884.136.1.261
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