Context (Field collection)
Found at a rubbish pit underneath kitchen of a 16 Century AD house at Butts Farm
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Author: Danlei Zhou

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note found with objects reads: 'Butt's Farm. Wicken'
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Author: Danlei Zhou

Context (Related Documents)
The card has the following entry: 'D.77.3-12: c15 sherds from a rubbish pit underneath kitchen of a 16 Century AD house at Butts Farm, Wicken'.
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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Broken fragments of a dish with a flared rim
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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Paul Spoerry (2016): 'Wheel-made concave sided bowl with externally thickened and bevelled rim that has been lightly thumbed. The bowl has a sagging base and obtuse base angle. Internally the bowl is patchily covered with iron mottled green glaze and externally the base is sooted. Hard-fired, moderately hackly fracture. Mid brown surfaces, light brown margins and mid grey core. Sandy feel, moderate–abundant fine quartz, occasional medium quartz and rare very coarse calcareous inclusions up to 3mm.'
Event Date 2016
Author: Danlei Zhou

Context (References)
Spoerry, Paul. (2016). The Production and Distribution of Medieval Pottery in Cambridgeshire. East Anglian Archaeology 159. Bar Hill: Oxford Archaeology East. p. 198, Fig. 9.53 (HM124)
Event Date 2016
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Large wheel-thrown concave-sided bowl, or pancheon. Everted, hammerhead and externally bevelled rim with groove on top, one section decorated with ten thumbed impressions; everted, straight wall with horizontal ridges outside; obtuse-angled, sagging base. Traces of iron mottled green glaze inside and sooted externally. Ten sherds detached but present.
Event Date 23/10/2023
Author: Danlei Zhou