East Rainton, Fieldside, mortar

HER Number:
12354

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
East Rainton, Fieldside, mortar

Place:
East Rainton

Map Sheet:
NZ34NW

Class:
Food Preparation and Consumption

Site Type: Broad:
Food Preparation Container

Site Type: Specific:
Mortar (Vessel)

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Stone vessel presently being used as a bird bath. Brought here from a house in Northowran in Yorkshire. 11 inches in diameter, 7.5 inches high and the inside is hollowed out to a depth of 3 inches. There is tooling on the inside and incised decorative lines going around the outside. It might be a well-finished stylobate for carrying an upright post. The internal tooling is suggestive of a mortar. The incised lines could be the result of weathering of the stone bedding plates. The lower part of the object looks clean as if it was set into something. Retained by the owner.

Easting:
334

Northing:
473

Grid Reference:
NZ334473

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Personal comment, John Nolan, Northern Counties Archaeological Services, June 2008