11th February 2013, 12:31 PM
The trimming of bases is reasonably common in both later prehistory and the Roman period â people using bases as stands, platters, coaster etc. â sometime making spindle whorls out of them. It's had to say for certain, but the finger impressions on the one on the far right - no. 4 - look kind of like the moulding marks you see on some pots, i.e. when the potter was pushing the clay down after attaching the lower wall to the base on the interior. In other words, it might not be decoration, unlike on the exterior of no. 2.