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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.

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

62.203/E.211

Find Information

Site Name: Dinas Powis, Vale of Glamorgan

Grid Reference: ST 148 722
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1954-1958

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

Acquisition

Donation, 14/6/1962

Measurements

weight / g:38.9
thickness / mm:4
diameter / mm:170

Techniques

wheel-thrown

Material

white ware
quartz tempered
grog tempered
iron ore tempered

Location

In store

Categories

E ware
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