SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: M. C. Site (Southall, 41UR3)

VESSEL NO.: 5-29-85

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

RIM AND LIP FORM: Inverted rim with a rounded, exterior folded lip

CORE COLOR: F (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: reddish-brown; fire clouds on the body and base

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brown; fire clouds on the rim, body, and base

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 6.1 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 13.2

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 23.6

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 25.5

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 8.5; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 2.8

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has an engraved horizontal scroll motif repeated 10 times around the vessel. On either side of the scrolls are one or two curvilinear engraved lines. The scroll motifs are divided by excised brackets.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: white pigment in engraved lines

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Simms Engraved

Simms Engraved carinated bowl.