Identify a piece of pottery.

Hondo75 · 09-02-2009 9:37pm #1

Hi there

Can anyone help me id a small piece of pottery . I found in a stream near to my house.
Its chocolate in colour with a pattern on the side. Pics included

Thanks

Bog Butter · 09-02-2009 11:35pm

I'm not a ceramics expert but doesn't look very old to me. If it is glazed on what would have been the inside of the vessal then it is deffinately modern.

Riamfada · 10-02-2009 12:49pm

THe photos are a bit out of focus can you take better ones ?

shipwreck · 10-02-2009 4:32pm

Its probably post-medieval maybe 18th or 19th century. Often spoil was used by farmers years ago that contained broken ceramic, it may have washed into the stream.

Hondo75 · 10-02-2009 10:56pm

Thanks lads for info . Grimes will send you clearer pictures.

Nutlog!!! · 12-02-2009 4:52pm

Is it glazed on all faces? If it is then yeah its likely post-medieval...if its Irish that is.

Can't really make out the true colour/hue. Is it browny or greeny or bluey..???

Hondo75 · 12-02-2009 8:02pm

Would you know who to sent it to?

Bog Butter · 12-02-2009 11:03pm

If you think it is of archaeological significance then you are by law obliged to contact the National Museum of Ireland. They will then determine if it is or not. Nine times out of ten though a stray piece of pottery like that is usually modern. From what I can see from your pictures I would say it is not of archaeological significance as it looks modern. But the only way to really know is to either physically see it.

boneless · 13-02-2009 3:01pm

The images are not very clear but it does look similar to to pottery I encountered on a site in Dublin some time back. That was actually found in a datable horizon though- between two seperate layers of floor tiles, the upper was 17th century and the lower 16th.

Do the edges appear to be worn smooth as by water action?

Przemyslaw · 31-03-2009 3:00pm

The pictures are crap (no edges visible, nor surface). I don't think that anyone can help you for sure. Is this ceramics so red as on the pictures?

micf · 16-04-2009 5:11pm

boneless wrote: »

The images are not very clear but it does look similar to to pottery I encountered on a site in Dublin some time back. That was actually found in a datable horizon though- between two seperate layers of floor tiles, the upper was 17th century and the lower 16th.

Do the edges appear to be worn smooth as by water action?

It looks kind of like the pottery from the Ardee Street excavation. was that the one you were on?

boneless · 20-04-2009 3:28pm

micf wrote: »

It looks kind of like the pottery from the Ardee Street excavation. was that the one you were on?

No. I was on Fumbally Lane but the material assembleges were very similar. I did take part in some of the recording on Ardee street though.

Identify a piece of pottery.

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