Monument record BUR 003 - Hill House Farm (IA)

IA pottery making floor or kiln, revealed in pipelaying, August 1955, across field next to and due W of Hill House. Excavated and sectioned by Basil Brown who found clay lagging sherds and shell gritted pottery in the floor area which was surrounded by a trench filled with black earth. The floor lay 2 feet 3 inches below surface, was 6 inches thick and lay on a 9 inch layer of sand above boulder clay. No details as to size of floor but photographs show large area. One of the sherds, on the inner surface, has 1 cm wide bands of textile or matting impression (the individual strands at right angles to the bands, no evidence of cross weave) divided dby similar width finger drawn lines (S1)(R1).
Also BA.