- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pottery sherd. A grey-black body sherd with a perforation, now in two pieces joined back together. [BA [OPS move] 20/12/2017]
- Long description
- Body sherd (2 sherds stuck together using red wax) of medium grained ceramic with mineral temper. The broken edges have a white residue adhering to them and the outer surface is reduce fired. There is a perforation through the sherd. [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
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Material Wax, Process Perforated, Process Handbuilt
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 8 mm, Width: max 87 mm, Length: max 100 mm, Weight 71 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.140.1519.2 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]
1884.140.1519.2
Pottery sherd. A grey-black body sherd with a perforation, now in two pieces joined back together. [BA [OPS move] 20/12/2017]
1884.140.1519.2
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