Ceramic vessel
Comment
A wheel-thrown vessel which appears to have been complete or almost complete at the time of deposition. Some eroded fractures on the neck may indicate that although the body was intact, part of the rim and neck may already have been missing. Soil conditions appear to have affected the original surface finish, leaving it rough and gritty. Inside, traces of bronze corrosion show that the body had been filled with coins at least to the level of the handle. The clay matrix is fine-grained with dark grey iron pellets, coarse white sand tempering and the occasional grog inclusion. The core is light brown with only patches of the original blue-grey surface colour and of the burnished decoration of vertical stripes surviving. There is evidence for only one applied handle, and there is no shaping for a spout so that the vessel is a single-handed flagon. The double rim and the handle shape cannot be paralleled exactly, while the fabric is represented only scarcely amongst sherds from both sites in the British Museum collections. This is a usefully dated early example of the type, dated by the coins c. AD 270-285.
Preservation
complete
Form
Flagon
Material
Ceramic
Hoard
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