Ceramic sherd. Rectangular body sherd with a black glaze on both sides and remnants of white painted decoration on the outside. [BA [OPS move] 20/12/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Ceramic sherd. Rectangular body sherd with a black glaze on both sides and remnants of white painted decoration on the outside. [BA [OPS move] 20/12/2017]
Long description: Body sherd of white ceramic with a dark brown/black glaze adhering to the outer and inner surfaces. Possible decoration. The sherd has come away from the mount (with two other objects [.1 & .3]). [CG [Excav. PR] 19/08/2013]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England West Sussex Worthing Findon Cissbury Ring
Cultural groups: European
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: Roman
Date collected: 1873
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884, uncertain Found unentered: 2013
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Decorated, Process Glazed
Dimensions: Depth: max 7 mm, Width: max 14 mm, Length: max 22 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.140.1466.1 PR no.: 35/ 8386
Research and responses: Pitt Rivers excavated at Cissbury hillfort in September 1867, January 1868 and April, June-Sept 1875 [see Bowden, 1991]. See also 'Excavations in Cissbury Camp, Sussex; being a report of the Exploration Committee of the Anthropological Institute for the year 1875' JAI vol V p357 1876. In late summer 1867 Pitt Rivers surveyed Sussex hillforts [Thompson, 1977: 47] Cissbury was the largest camp in Sussex and he excavated there in September 1867 and January 1868 [Thompson, 1977: 48] According to Thompson this was first formal excavation he undertook. He continued his archaeological work in Sussex in 1875 when he began a series of excavations on Sussex hillforts [Thompson, 1977: 52]: ‘Throughout the spring and summer of 1875, he was excavating at Cissbury, supervising a team of four or five workers and entertaining workers [sic - ?visitors] from the Anthropological Institute, and later the Royal Society, as they came to look at the excavation.’ [Chapman, 1981: 399, referenced to Thompson] [AP 25/08/2006]
The hill fort at Cissbury Ring [TQ 1395 0805] and the flint mines [TQ 1360 0788] at the same site are recorded on the English Heritage maintained National Monuments Record under monument no's. 395595 and 395602. The records are available to view online, see http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk. [MN 26/06/2009]

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