Pottery from the West Village

Detailed description of the Pottery p.24

P13. The knob of a pot cover ; max. ext. diam. l.69 in.
Ware fragile, heavy and badly-baked. Paste grey colour, coarse-grained, mixed with grit. Ext. surface black, smooth, but uneven. Ornamented on upper surface with a diamond-shaped design, divided by cross-lines enclosed by a circular groove near the margin.
Found in Mound VII, in the black earth under the clay, 20 ft. SE. of the c.p., 1911. Figured in Plate VIL

P14. Large nearly straight-sided pot, plain with the exception of one girth groove below the rim. Type XXXIII.
Max. ext. diam. of rim 7.5 in. ; max. ext. diam. of base 6 in. max. height 5.25 in.
Ware heavy, hard-baked thickness varies from 0.25in. to 0.44 in. Paste dark grey, mixed with fine quartz and stone grit. Ext. surface black, smooth and burnished. Int. surface black, fairly smooth.
Found in Mound VIII, on second floor, 14.25ft. N. of the c.p., 1911. Figured in Plates XVII and XIX.

P15. Fragment of large ornamented pot with everted rim.
Max. ext. diam. of rim 7.38 in. ; thickness of ware varies from 0.31 in. to 0.5 in.
Ext. surface dark grey, smooth, soapy to the touch ; much pitted. Int. surface black and burnished. Ornamented at base of rim with a triangular design consisting of broad grooves bordered on either side with lines of round punctured holes arranged from 0.19 in. to 0.3 1 in. apart from centre to centre. The ornament is somewhat similar in character to pottery found by Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Cunnington on an Early Iron Age A inhabited site at All Cannings Cross Farm, Wilts., 1911.
Found in Mound Vii, 1911. Figured in Plate IL

P16. About one-half of an ornamented pot cover with knob, and with a projecting flange near the edge of the lower surface.
Max. ext. diam. 6~88 in. ; max. ext. diam. of flange 5.19 in. mt. diam. of flange 4.62 in. ; flange is 0.5 in. in depth, and placed 0.69 in. in from the margin. The outer surface is vertical, inner surface concave, and the edge rounded.
Ware reddish-grey colour, hard-baked ; thickness varies from 0.25 in. to .05 in. Paste reddish- grey, heavy, mixed with quantity of coarse and fine grit. Upper surface dark grey, nearly black in places, slightly convex, nearly flat near the margin. Smooth where not weathered. Lower surface reddish-brown colour, fairly smooth. Ornamented with four grooves round the base of the knob, the spaces between the three inner grooves being shaded with oblique lines. Near the margin of the cover it is ornamented with two grooves. The space between these two sets of grooves is occupied by a pattern consisting of five groups of triple-lined semicirdes enclosing two smaller semicirdes, shacied and bordered by two grooves. The edge of the cover is ornamented with cross-hatched lines. The knob is also ornamented by two crossed lines dividing the top into four triangular spaces, the opposing two of which are shaded ; the other two triangles are plain.
Found in Mound XII, on the clay floor, 17.5 ft. W. of the c.p., 1912. Figured in Plate VII7

P17. Elaborately-ornamented fragment of large bowl. Max. ext. diam. of rim 8.38 in.
Ware heavy ; thickness varies from 0.38 in. to 0.5 in. Paste of greyish colour near middle of section, brownish near the surfaces ; mixed with quantity of fine quartz grains. Ext. surface black and burnished. Int. surface black, brownish near the margin of lip. Ornamented with cordons and girth grooves, a line of small round punctured holes below the lip, and two bands of dot-and-circle pattern between the cordons. The cordons are ornamented with chevrons, and the upper surface of the lip with double chevrons bordered on the Int. surface by two shallow girth grooves.
Found in Mound X, on the clay floor, 7.5 ft. N.E. of the c.p., 1912. Figured in Plate II.

P18. Ornamented base and fragment of side attached. The base has two round perforations 0.25 in. in diam. drilled after the pot was fired. Max. diam. of base 5.25 in.
Ware heavy, strong and hard-baked ; thickness varies from 0.25 in. to 0.38 in. Paste dark grey, mixed with large quantity of quartz (largest pieces 0.l26 in. in diam.) and some grains of black stone. Ext. surface black to buff, smooth where not weathered gritty to the touch elsewhere. mt. surface black, smooth in places, gritty elsewhere. Base ornamented with double-grooved inverted semicircies, the spaces between shaded with curved grooves. Fragment of side shows two girth grooves.
Found in Mound XIV, on first floor, 23 ft. N.E. of the c.p., 1912. Figured in Plate V.

P19. About two-thirds of an ornamented bowl. Type III.
Max. ext. diam. of rim 6 in. ; max. ext. diam. of body 7.56 in. max. ext. diam. of base 4.063 in.
Paste mixed with sand and small quartz grains. Ext. surface black, smooth and burnished. Int. surface brown, gritty to the touch. Ornamented with a festooned pattern shaded with fine cross-hatching, bordered above by three
shaded girth grooves. Two girth grooves surround the base. The rim is surrounded with a girth groove on the inner surface. The under-surface of the base is ornamented, but there is not enough of the pattern to describe the complete design.
Found in Mound XIV, 22.5 ft. N. F. of the c.p., 1912. Figured in Plate YV.

P20. Fragment of ornamented bowl. Type XXVII.
Ware hard-baked, heavy ; varies in thickness from 0.l9 in. to 0.34 in. Paste light brown colour, mixed with quantity of grit. Ext. surface brown, one place black and burnished, weathered and gritty to the touch ; shows horizontal tool-marks. Int. surface greyish-brown colour, uneven and gritty to the touch. Ornamented with an elaborate design of the scroll pattern on lower part of body, and between this and the rim by two cordons and rows of 0.5 in. circles enclosing two smaller circles with dots. The lower cordon is bordered below by a line of punctured dots. The rim is nearly vertical on out-side and convex on inner surface ; the lip is everted.
Found in Mound III, in the black earth, 35! ft. SW. of the c.p., 1913. Figured in Plate II and Plate XVL

P21. Fragment of ornamented bowl ; max. ext. diam. of lip 4.75 in.
Ware badly-baked, heavy ; average thickness 0.38 in. Paste rather soft, light grey colour, mixed with large quantity of quartz, and pieces of stone, some of which are 0.l9 in. in diam. Ext. surface lightish-grey, originally black and burnished ; smooth where not weathered. Int. surface grey to red ; this surface appears harder-baked than the exterior, uneven, gritty to the touch. Ornamented with a band of chevron pointing to the right ; 0.62 in. max. width. Band is bordered above and below by four girth grooves the middle space between these lines is ornamented with a single row of dots.
Found in Mound III, in the black earth, 33 ft. S.W. of the c.p., 1913. Figured in Plate V.

7 This specimen was drawn by Mr. Rupert Austin, A.R.I.B.A.

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