Bronze Age Worlds by Robert Johnston

Author:Robert Johnston [Johnston, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Anthropology, Archaeology, Sociology
ISBN: 9781351710985
Google: OhYHEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-10-26T01:02:44+00:00

The excavators recovered 98 kilograms of post-Deverel-Rimbury jars, bowls and cups from Tinney’s Lane, representing more than 1,000 vessels. The broken pottery recovered from the activity areas comprised pots that failed during the firing process (wasters) and others that were broken accidently (Figure 5.6). Based on the quantity of broken pots, which might account for 5–10 percent of the fired vessels, Joanne Best and Ann Woodward (2011, 246) estimate that 550–1100 vessels were made during the occupation of each activity area and its associated dwelling. This goes beyond the production of pottery for the households at Tinney’s Lane. Similar fabrics were found at South Cadbury, 7.5 kilometres distant and not further afield, which is a pattern of local production, use and deposition that characterises most post-Deverel-Rimbury pottery assemblages (Morris 1994). Like Bestwall Quarry, Tinney’s Lane illustrates the mutuality of dwelling and making, household and craft. Tinney’s Lane differs in the intensities and quantities of pottery making that have survived—the protective blanket of colluvium offers only a partial explanation. It was a place especially defined by its craft.

FIGURE 5.6 Pottery within a pit at Tinney’s Lane, Dorset, including wasters, cup and spindle whorl. Copyright: Exeter Archaeology.

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