Ceramic Body Sherd

Ceramic

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Trimontium Museum

Name/Title

Ceramic Body Sherd

Entry/Object ID

E.2024.8

Description

Small brownish coarse ware body sherd

Use

Pottery was used for a variety of purposes such as but not limited to: to store food and liquids, cook with, eat/drink from, decoration, and to hold cosmetics. This sherd would have been apart of a larger vessel, and the vessel was most likely associated with food and drink.

Context

Found at Trimontium during field walking

Collection

Trimontium Trust

Category

Ceramic

Acquisition

Accession

E.2024.8

Notes

2011 Ostia

Made/Created

Time Period

1st - 2nd century

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Continent

Europe

Culture/Tribe

Romano British

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Pottery

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Factory

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Industrial Structures

Nomenclature Class

Structures

Nomenclature Category

Category 01: Built Environment Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

sherds

Dimensions

Width

21 mm

Depth

6.1 mm

Length

19.4 mm

Weight

4 g

Material

Ceramic

Color

Brown

Condition

Overall Condition

Fair

Web Links and URLs

Canmore web link to Newstead (Trimontium)

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Found by Walter Elliot

Role

Fieldwalker

Acquisition Method

Found

Notes

From box labelled Walter Elliot (Trim Story 4/4)