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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