11th February 2013, 08:51 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:Dead common around here, especially on late Roman (C.4th/5th) sites, have dug plenty but usually samian. Have seen Roman greywares trimmed to discs though, couple of inches across (but no hole), no hint as to what they were for.Yep, we've got reused pottery disks on the Iron Age/Romano-British site - both the type with the central hole and one plain disc without the hole. There's definitely a precedent for modification and secondary use of pottery vessels. Those are in fabrics which are a lot thinner and finer than our dimply thingies though.
Quote:Only pay Red £23, I'd already chucked in the thing about coil-built pots exploding near the top of page 1, he shouldn't get paid extra just for using fancy technical words!Well indeed. Great minds think alike.
Quote:- any openings in the indoor world of clipping corners off potsherds, can provide own nail-clippers? (bit brassic outdoors in Whitby today, led to such radical thoughts...)Apparently dog toenail clippers are the way forward with pottery trimming, so I'm assured. No word on what the dog thinks (probably OK with it as long as we don't swipe their mascara for sherd marking).