Internet Archaeol 9. Hunter-Mann. Local production

The forms of the main production ‘waste' are shown in Table 9. The nature of production ‘waste' and particularly the survival of slip means that absolute differentiation between the fabrics is impossible, but the broad outlines of the use of the individual fabric types is clear; the white slip was particularly fugitive.

			BRCC		BROX		BRWS		Total
Form	Type	Code	Sherds	Weight	Sherds	Weight	Sherds	Weight	Sherds	Weight
Bowl	untyped	B	2	62	0	0	0	0	2	62
	Dr31 type	B31	0	0	2	23	0	0	2	23
	Dr37 type	B37	2	8	0	0	0	0	2	8
	inturned rim	BIR	1	29	0	0	0	0	1	29
Tazza?	everted flange	TZ?	4	52	0	0	0	0	4	52
Beaker	body/base	BK	1358	3631	0	0	0	0	1358	3631
	Barbotine	BKBARB	32	87	0	0	0	0	32	87
	cornice rim	BKCOR	266	1222	36	73	0	0	302	1295
	curved rim	BKCR	21	58	1	5	0	0	22	63
	folded	BKFO	277	730	1	1	0	0	278	731
	folded curved rim	BKFOC	13	61	0	0	0	0	13	61
	folded cornice rim	BKFOCOR	7	41	0	0	0	0	7	41
	folded scale-decorated	BKFOS	1	4	0	0	0	0	1	4
	plain rim	BKPR	3	12	0	0	0	0	3	12
	rough-cast	BKRC	19	51	1	7	0	0	20	58
Box	Castor box	BX	9	102	1	4	0	0	10	106
Closed		CLSD	44	223	55	503	0	0	99	726
Dish	inturned rim	DIR	2	50	0	0	0	0	2	50
Platter		P	3	36	11	215	0	0	14	251
Open		OPEN	2	14	1	2	0	0	3	16
Flagon	untyped	F	3	24	55	368	12	132	70	524
	cup-mouth	FC	0	0	7	49	0	0	7	49
	cordoned	FCOR	0	0	1	18	0	0	1	18
	folded jug	JUG	1	13	5	37	0	0	6	50
Lid	untyped	L	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	2
	Box lid	LBX	3	26	0	0	0	0	3	26
Untyped	bodysherds	-	31	126	56	340	0	0	87	466
Total			2105	6664	233	1645	12	132	2350	8441

Table 9: Local production forms. Codes in italics indicate codes used for body/base sherds only

The predominant type in the BRCC colour-coated fabric was the beaker (95%), but a folded jug fragment, a flagon rim (no.52) and fragments of flagon or jug handles also occurred. Open forms were mostly single vessels: the probable tazza (no.53), the hemispherical bowl (no.54), the bowl or dish (nos.55 and 56), the boxes (nos.58, 59 and 60) (seven probable) and box lids as no.57 (another one and a fragment of a different type of lid with a beaded rim).

The bulk of the BROX sherds were probably from flagons or other closed vessels. Most of the sherds recorded as closed were likely to come from flagons, although 17% of the sherds were from beakers apparently without the red slip. A single sherd from a box also had no slip. Open forms were confined to the bowl (no.64), the inturned bowl or dish (no.65) and the platter form (no.66).

The sherds of BRWS all came from flagons, and it is possible that some of those classified as BROX may have originally had the white exterior slip.

Cornice rims were the dominant rim type for the beakers; at least 130 individual beakers are represented by rims, against probably 14 beakers with curved rims, and only three with plain rims. Folded beakers mostly have curved rim types although one folded beaker has a cornice rim. Many of the beakers were probably originally rough-cast with clay particles, but few survived with any quantity in position. Barbotine decoration was only noted with cornice rims, while rouletted decoration occurred on both cornice rims and folded beakers. The barbotine occurred mainly as fragmentary body sherds, probably representing 26 vessels, four with the barbotine definitely combined with zones of rouletting. Ten vessels have barbotine hairpin decoration, usually combined with ‘tear-drops' or ‘wish-bones' (nos.22, 23 and 24), no.23 comprising sherds from more than one vessel), while a single vessel, no.25, had a barbotine vegetable decoration. Two beakers appear to have fragments of an animal suggesting a hunt cup type of decoration (nos.26 and 27), while a single body sherd had an enigmatic fragment of barbotine, which could be viewed as the end of an animal's tail (no.28). The diagonal barbotine on the beaker no.21 could be viewed as atypical hairpins, but more probably represents a different type.

Brough local production cont'd

4.5.2 Vessel types