Ceramic vessel
Comment
Jar, the container for the coin hoard, with copper-alloy corrosion products and 'coin halos' visible on the inner surface. A near-complete wheel-thrown grey ware jar with a pair of countersunk lugged handles. The rim, completely lacking from the pot, is represented by several loose, non-joining sherds. The surfaces are grey-coloured, the fabric hard and fine-textured with a very pale grey core. Decoration comprises a panel of vertical scoring in the area of maximum girth flanked top and bottom by plain horizontal bands and a simple incised continuous scrolled motif in the upper (handle) zone. Ht. 28.5 cm. Diam. 20 cm.
This is Crambeck Grey Ware, the most abundant of the Crambeck wares, distributed across NE England during the early to mid-4th century with a major expansion from the mid-4th century.
Date: 4th century AD.
Dish, broken. A small plain shallow-sided wheel-thrown grey ware dish with a flat base and simple rim. The circuit of the walls is composed of nine joining sherds, but the base is represented by a single sherd. The surfaces are pale gray-colored, and the fabric is hard and fine-textured with a very pale white-gray core. Rim diameter c. 15 cm. Wall height c. 3 cm.
Crambeck Grey Ware.
Date: 4th century AD.
The sherd, thick-walled, was found at the lower wall/base angle of a large hand-formed, gritted grey-black coarseware jar. The sherd is believed to have functioned as the 'lid' for the jar that held the hoard. Height c. 10 cm. Wide c. 11 cm.
There are two non-joining sherds, one of which is a simple rim made of hand-formed gritted grey-black coarseware.
Sherds, additional potsherds: Four ceramic sherds of possible Roman date (AD 43-410) from the same vessel. Three of the sherds are from the body of a vessel; one is from the rim of a vessel. The fabric of the sherds is hard and coarse with large, frequent inclusion of light mica and infrequent calcite inclusions. The surface is pitted with a black-coloured slip on both surfaces. The cross section show a consistent mid-grey coloured fabric.
A. Length: 35.76mm. Width: 31.26 mm, Thickness: 7.66 mm, Weight: 10.9 g.
B. Length: 29.17 mm. Width: 21.13 mm, Thickness: 6.60 mm, Weight: 5.5 g.
C. Length: 36.34 mm. Width: 18.71 mm, Thickness: 7.53 mm, Weight: 5.2 g.
D. Length: 48.95 mm. Width: 20.10 mm, Thickness: 9.44 mm, Weight: 11.1 g.
Form
Storage jar
Material
Ceramic
Hoard
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