Description

Summary: Pottery rim sherd with drilled hole through the vessel to hold a loop or other mechanism to hang the vessel or as the site of a rivetted repair. The vessel form and fabric suggest a Roman date. From fieldwork undertaken by the WANHS Archaeology Field Group at Cumberwell, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire 2008-2010..

Research results

A sherd from a small jar with a perforation, probably for suspension or perhaps originally a repair, found during the Wiltshire Archaeology Field Group excavation of the Roman settlement site at Cumberwell, Bradford-on-Avon, 2008-2010. Unfortunately, the paper archive of the excavation has been lost and the site has not been published except for preliminary analyses of the excavated and field walked finds. From these and geophysical survey results the site can be identified as an agricultural settlement of relatively low wealth, although with substantial stone-built structures.