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Early Medieval ceramic crucible
Type series of knobs and restored bowls. Crucible bowl nearly complete. Fragments of Bowl found with fragments of at least one other bowl and a lid in an extensive ashy patch under Bank I (fig 15; Section 4; XII (7); O). All are in a fine grey or buff paste with quartz grits. In the highly vitrified areas of the exterior, small grits may cover as much as half the surface of the vessel, suggesting that this had been coated with a grit-enriched slip. The bowl form is a deep pear shape, and the spout is pulled out from the bowl itself. Whereever the original exterior of the bowl is preserved it is highly vitrified. Within the bowl and especially at the lip of the spout there are blobs of bronze, while the lower interior of the bowl has a thin coat of reddish vitrification which is almost certainly copper oxide dross.
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Site Name: Dinas Powis, Vale of Glamorgan
Notes: Section 4, Cut XII, Layers (7), Context O O: A spread of Ash and charcoal on the old ground surface, sometimes associated with built hearths.