1884.136.1.502

Collection type

Object

Description

Ceramic base sherd

Long description

Base sherd of fine grained ceramic with mineral temper. [JW [Excav. PR] 20/05/2013]

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 "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

Materials and processes

Material Pottery, Material Clay, Process Handbuilt

Dimensions

Thick: max 13 mm, Width: max 27 mm, Length: max 41 mm, Weight 9 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.136.1.502 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]

Search terms: Pottery, Sherd