Ardleigh Group urns from Essex
By Nigel Brown
Plate 1. Detail of urn from White
Colne, comb impressions in a very smooth slipped surface
which was clearly still quite wet when the impressions
were made. 988-4
Plate 2. Detail of urn from White
Colne, showing firing spall, slight vertical ridging
may result from drawing the clay upward during manufacture
the exterior is quite well smoothed, possibly beaten.
988-6
Plate 3.Detail of urn from Shalford,
showing triangular patch of finger impressions, and
shrinkage cracks radiating from pieces of burnt flint
temper. 988-1
Plate 4.Detail of urn from Ardleigh,
showing pinched up knobs. 988-2
Plate 5.Detail of urn from White Colne,
showing uneven surface and shrinkage cracks radiating
from large lumps of grog temper, some of which (e.g.
the piece just below the right of the scale) are still
clearly recognisable as pieces of pottery. 988-5
Plate 6.Detail of interior of urn
from White Colne showing large piece of grog temper
still clearly recognisable as a piece of pottery in
a vessel otherwise tempered with crushed burnt flint.
988-3
For further information, see: Brown, N. 1999 The Archaeology
of Ardleigh, Essex: excavations 1955-1980 East Anglian
Archaeology 90
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