- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ceramic sherd. Body sherd of medium grained ceramic with mineral temper. [CG [Excav. PR] 30/07/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England West Sussex Worthing Highdown Hill "Pit 6"
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Unknown
- Date collected
- 1867 Oct
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884 Found unentered: Found unentered
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 9 mm, Width: max 35 mm, Length: max 51 mm, Weight 20 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.140.1520.66 PR Cat other PR nos: 3757
- Associated publications
- Lane Fox, A.H. 1869. Further Remarks on the Hill Forts of Sussex: Being an account of the excavations in the Forts of Cissbury and Highdown. Archaeologia 42: 53-76. [Dan Hicks 13/11/2013]
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