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The hoarded coins were contained within the plough-truncated remains of a thin-walled WA Type 3 Black Burnished Ware jar (cf. Seager Smith & Davis 1993) c. 60 mm high, with a moderately flaring rim of a similar diameter to the maximum body girth (c. 40 mm), and made in characteristic Wareham/Poole Harbour reduced, quartz sand-rich fabric. The jar had been laid on its side at deposition (shielding the top from plough damage), allowing its full profile and dimensions to be recovered. The flat base is c. 70 mm in diameter, and the lower body is 'wiped' externally. There is a c. 20-25 mm wide band of shallow-burnished obtuse lattice decoration low on the shoulder, directly above a slight carination that marks the maximum body girth. Above the lattice on the upper shoulder, a slight girth groove at the junction of the rim and sections of the external rim is laterally burnished, while the interior of the rim is similarly burnished up to just below the internal neck constriction. The extent of any pre-depositional wear cannot be determined without further cleaning of the sherds, although it is possible that part of the rim was absent at deposition. Much of the interior of the jar is encrusted with pale yellow-grey silt, which may be weakly cemented with redeposited copper products. This silt preserves a number of coin impressions and also some traces of what appear to be fibrous vegetable matter – possibly grass or straw. Slight finger-wiping marks are visible at the internal junction with the base.
IARCH dataset, AHRC funded University of Leicester and British Museum project. Imported and edited by M. Spoerri (June 2019 / Nov. 2024). Updated by C. Gazdac (Nov. 2025).
