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jar
Object Type
jar
Museum number
1978,1101.1272.a-e
Description
Five sherds (one rim, four body) from a wheel-turned pottery jar. Single cordon at base of neck, double cordon on shoulder. Surfaces smoothed and burnished. Grog, quartz and red ferruginous tempered.
Cultures/periods
Late Iron Age
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
The British Museum
Excavated by:
David Thomson Trust
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Cliffe (Kent)
, Feature 70 Layer 146
Materials
pottery
Technique
wheel-made
smoothed
burnished
grog-tempered
quartz-tempered
tempered
Dimensions
Length:
101 millimetres
(sherd a)
Length:
43 millimetres
(sherd b)
Length:
37 millimetres
(sherd c)
Length:
43 millimetres
(sherd d)
Length:
48 millimetres
(sherd e)
Weight:
114.20 grammes
(sherd a)
Weight:
38.80 grammes
(sherd b)
Weight:
33.40 grammes
(sherd c)
Weight:
26.40 grammes
(sherd d)
Weight:
21.60 grammes
(sherd e)
Width:
99 millimetres
(sherd a)
Width:
70 millimetres
(sherd b)
Width:
72 millimetres
(sherd c)
Width:
61 millimetres
(sherd d)
Width:
46 millimetres
(sherd e)
Bibliographic references
Kinnes et. al. 1998 / Excavations at Cliffe, Kent
(p.31, 46)
Location
Not on display
Acquisition date
1978
Department
Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number
1978,1101.1272.a-e