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Early Medieval pottery cooking pot
Fragment from the base 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.213
Find Information
Site Name: Dinas Powis, Vale of Glamorgan
Grid Reference: ST 148 722
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1954-1958
Notes: Cut XVIII, Layer (7), Context - 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:6.8
thickness / mm:7
Material
white ware
quartz tempered
grog tempered
iron ore tempered
Techniques
wheel-thrown
Location
In store
Categories
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