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Jar
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Large pottery storage jar, hand-made in the Malvern Hills during the late Iron Age. It was found lying crushed on a sandstone hearth at Sutton Walls hillfort, four miles north of Hereford, during excavations carried out by Kathleen Kenyon in 1954. The jar has a lead repair over a crack in the lower part of the vessel, mended in the late Iron Age? to allow the pot to continue to be used. The vessel has a vast storage capacity for either liquid or solid food. It is about 50cms high and has a girth of 45cms. It was made without a wheel using the coil method. The craftsmanship required to make a clay vessel of this size is great, as it had to be formed without slumping or collapsing from its own weight. It was also burnished, and decorated around the rim with a row of angular s-shapes and along the top of the rim with a lashed cable pattern. At this time, pots were generally fired to temperatures of around 800?C.
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | 6747 |
| Date | 200BC - 100BC |
| Period | Iron Age |
| Collection | Archaeology |
| Technique | hand-built |
| Material | Ceramic |
| Creator | Kenyon, Dr. Kathleen M. |
| Name | |
| Locality | Sutton Walls |
| Locality | Malvern |
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