Ceramic vessel
Comment
A semi-complete small, slender, narrow-mouthed jar. A fairly hard mid-grey fabric with a moderate amount of silver mica in it and a moderate amount of variable-sized white sand grains (including at least one piece over 5 mm across). The pot
has been reconstructed from about 60 fragments, which show extensive, very recent damage, presumably from the plough. The only older fractures are possibly two chips on the base and at the neck where the rim is completely absent, suggesting it was removed in an earlier phase of agricultural activity. The form is a narrow mouth on a globular body with a central panel of decoration and a flat pedestal base. The exterior surface is burnished, the burnishing extending over the underneath of the base. The decoration consists of an upper band of upright fingernail-type impressions between single grooves and a main area of burnished acute lattice with horizontal burnished lines and with a single (in places double) groove at the bottom. The upper two-thirds of the pot has a pale grey surface which is shown to be an applied slip, as it has dribbled over the lower part in one area. The pot is a slight waster in that it was dented before firing in one area of the lower groove. Both fabric and form suggest local manufacture, probably in the Wattisfield area – for example, the fingertip cordon is relatively common on Wattisfield-decorated jars. The coins have left circular discoloured areas on the inside of the pot up to the level of the fingertip cordon, showing that it was upright and not completely full when buried.
Preservation
complete
Form
Jar
Material
Ceramic
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