Food storage jar
- Description
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Three sherds from a food storage jar. This type of pottery was probably made in Devon and was burnished to give an attractive sheen to the outside surface.
The pot belonged to the Roman military era of a supply depot found by archaeologists on the St Loyes site that lay between the port at Topsham and the fortress at Exeter. - Accession Loan No.
- 448/2009/3/2/9
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Common Name
- food storage jar
- Simple Name
- vessel (sherd)
- Full Name
- sunken lug handle jar
- Cultural Group
- Roman
- Period Classification
- Roman (43-410)
- Family Group
- Material
- pottery
- Collector / Excavator
- Exeter Archaeology
- Collection Site Name
- St Loyes College (2010)
- Collection Town
- Exeter
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
