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Early Medieval pottery cooking pot
Fragment from the Rim of a wide-mouthed, round-bodied cooking-pot: Form E1. The rim is sharply everted and has a well marked internal ledge for a lid. The junction of hte neck and body is marked by a sharp groove. Very hard creamy buff fabric with much quartz grit; grog is extremely rare. The inner surface has largely flaked away.
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Site Name: Dinas Powis, Vale of Glamorgan
Notes: Section 7; Cut XVIII, Layer (4), Context C/D C: Black, usually greasy soil, with small angular rubble; much bone, charcoal flecking; rich in finds. D: Large, often slabby stones, with smaller stones interspersed; dark humus-soil; relatively few bones or finds. Excavation conducted in the promontory fort and the adjoining hill-slope enclosure. Cwm George : Cwrt-yr-Ala Park