- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pottery rim sherd. Rim sherd of medium grained, reduce fired with mineral temper. [CG [Excav. PR] 31/07/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England East Sussex Lewes Southerham "Pits"
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector James Weller
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Unknown
- Date collected
- 1877
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884 Found unentered: Found unentered
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 13 mm, Width: max 44 mm, Length: max 52 mm, Weight 34 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.140.1519.5 PR no.: 443/ 12191
- Research and responses
Southerham is very close to Ranscombe Camp and Mount Caburn, where Pitt-Rivers excavated in the late 1870s. The "Pits" may be a reference to the chalk pit shown on the location map in the Mount Caburn publication (Pitt-Rivers 1881: Plate 22 (between pp. 424-425). [Dan Hicks 16/08/2013]
- Associated publications
- Pitt-Rivers, A.H.L.F. 1881. Excavations at Mount Caburn camp near Lewes, conducted in 1877 and 1878. Archaeologia 46: 423-495. [Dan Hicks 16/08/2013]
1884.140.1519.5
Pottery rim sherd. Rim sherd of medium grained, reduce fired with mineral temper. [CG [Excav. PR] 31/07/2013]
1884.140.1519.5
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
If you wish to order a high-resolution image and/or licence its use for print or web publication, exhibition, film, promotional product or any other use, whether in the academic or commercial sector of any print run, then please visit photographic services.
