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2000 years of pottery forms and shapes Early Saxon AD 350 - 650

Common name Sandy ware, a Frankish type Class Bottle Height 245mm Identifier PW201a Production centre northern France Distribution northern France, Kent and Upper Thames Use as a container for wine Date 7th century AD Published in Leeds 1924, 113-126 and Evison 1974, 77-89; Speake and Dickinson 1992, 95 -130 Historic context excavated from an Anglo-Saxon barrow at Asthall, in west Oxfordshire, 1923 found with small quantity of burnt human bone, fire-damaged bone playing pieces, some fragments of metalwork, including a decorative pin-head with animal ornament Excavated by G. S. Bowles

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