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Sherds from the base, lower body and rim of a handmade jar in a grog-tempered ware which falls within the definition of 'Savernake Ware'. The fabric has a fine-grained matrix with mixed inclusions of red and white grog and clay pellets up to 0.6 cm in length. The core is red, the interior surface blue-grey while the exterior was originally a darker grey, but has been so badly worn that the core is exposed. Only the lower body remains, but the vessel when complete was probably comparatively wide-bodied and squat in its proportions, with its total height somewhat less than its maximum girth of 23.5 cm. The rim sherd is too small to determine the rim diameter, however its shape suggests that the pot was necked and shouldered in its form, as Savernake Type 7, rather than having a bead-rim, as Type 4.. At one side the jar survives to a height of 14.5 cm just above the maximum girth, here the breaks are comparatively fresh and clean suggesting fracture around the time of discovery. Opposite, the wall survives to just 8.5 cm along a fracture line which can be traced for almost the whole circuit of the body, here the breaks are dirty and worn indicating fracture in antiquity. It seems likely that the jar was full only to about the level of this stress line although at the time of its final burial, it could have been complete or at least surviving to above the shoulder level for some of its circuit. The jar was made locally for it is a typical product of the North Wiltshire pottery industry for the Roman period. The absence of the diagnostic features of the upper body and rim render dating difficult, but the squat and rounded body shape, and the fabric, suggest a date in the second half of the first or the early second centuries AD". –Val Rigby, in CHRB IV, 69, with fig.
Roberston dataset, imported by J. Mairat. 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 (Oct. 2025).
