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Pottery Summary

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Locus 2 Pottery Summary (518 Shards)

Locus 3 Pottery Summary (246 shards)

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Locus 4 Pottery Summary (34 Shards)

Locus 5 Pottery Summary (58 shards)

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Baulk Trim Pottery Summary (22 Shards)

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CB 56 (LHS1) Pottery Summary

CB56 yielded a moderate amount of pottery during the 2012 excavation season. Of the six loci, two produced no pottery at all, Loci 1 and 6. The highest amount of pottery was found in Locus 2, 59% of the total recovered or 518 pieces. This was a large locus which covered the entire area of the trench and was defined by a light brown erosional fill soil. The pottery within this locus was for the most part coarseware (88%, 458 shards), with creamware (7%, 39 shards) impasto (4% , 20 shards) and a single piece of buccheroid ware also being found in this locus. Locus 2 also produced some decorated medieval pottery, indicating the mixed erosional nature of the assemblage in this level.

Locus 3 produced the second largest amount of pottery (284 shards, 28% of the total assemblage), and was once more a large locus overlaying the entire trench. Like Locus 2, the most prominent type of ware present in Locus 3 was coarseware (87%, 249 shards), with impasto (8%, 22 shards), creamware (4%, 12 shards) and fine impasto (2.8%, 7 shards) present in addition to the dominant coarseware. Loci 4 and 5 formed the upper and lower loci of the hole feature respectively.

Locus 4, characterised by a dark, soft, loose soil, contained relatively little pottery (3.8 %, 34 shards) which was once more made up mostly of coarseware (85%, 29 shards) followed once again by impasto (12%, 4 shards) and creamware (3%, 1 shard) fragments. Locus 5, typified by the yellow brown sticky soil beneath Locus 4 and inextricably bound up in the hole feature, produced 58 shards of pottery, 6% of the total and noticeably more than found in Locus 4. This ceramic assemblage followed the established pattern, with the presence of 54 pieces of coarseware (91% of the Locus 5 pottery) accompanied by small numbers of creamware (7%, 4 shards) and impasto. (1.7%, 1 shard.) A piece of ionic ware was found in Locus 5, dating to around the sixth century BCE.

Pottery without a secure context from the baulk walls consisted of only 22 pieces (2.5% of the total) and was once more composed mostly of coarseware (82%, 18 shards) and a small amount of impasto ware. (18.2%, 4 shards).