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There are 21 objects for which Decoration contains → finished
14.9.11 Painted decoration in dull black on both sides in rectangles with lines inside with cross hatching on the underside. Part of two bored holes at the same end but slightly apart, perhaps for suspension. No finished edges.
14.9.14 The ground of the clay is pinkish inside and creamy outside. No finished edges. Patterns in dull black, curvilinear, on both sides. The pattern is curved on both surfaces.
14.9.16 Core of this fragment is white with the interior surface painted red. The exterior surface is white with a bold red zigzag. No finished edges.
14.9.17 Red core with both surfaces covered in white. The fragment is curved in two directions suggesting it is part of the neck of a vessel. Convex curve white and the concave curve is white with a red zigzag. No finished edges.
14.9.20 No finished edges. Red core and red interior. White on outside with dark brown / red detail in a triangular shape.
14.9.22 Red clay with white slip on both sides and decorative red stripes, angled like very open chevrons, on outside. Inside, trace of red across on corner perhaps evidence of lost interior design. No finished edges so it is a middle piece.
14.9.23 Red with white slip on both sides and traces of red decoration on the exterior surface with a band and then a band with design attached to it. On the interior surface is a red line down one side with a whte 'S' on it. No finished edges.
14.9.24 Pink with white slip on both sides. Thick wavy stripes on both sides which have points and almost look like very close zigzag.Bands of red are uneven and irregular as they were drawn by hand. One finished edge which is thinner, denoting a rim.
14.9.25 Pink, with decoration of red stripes on creamy ground on outside. Very coarse material and no decoration on the interior surface. No finished edges.
14.9.26 Pink with wavy red stripes on white ground on outside. Reserved on the interior surface. No finished edges.
14.9.29 Pink surface with white slip on each side. Linear decoration in red. Outside is horizontally striped and inside is half red with half the surface with white diagonal stripes. The fragment is a middle piece as there are no finished edges.
14.9.30 Sherd with fragment of handle attached. Interior surface is reserved showing the pale clay. The exterior is covered with dull black paint and has superimposed bands of white with the suggestion that there is some pattern inside the band. Small section of handle is black as well. No finished edges.
14.9.42 Pinkish-buff clay. Exterior surface has poor, dull black paint in a pattern of three linked spirals between broad bands. Interior surface is reserved except for an irregular streak of red top to bottom. No finished edges.
14.9.72 Fragment with no finished edges. Exterior: animal procession consisting grazing goats (only head, part of one antler and one foreleg of one and one hind leg of second ramaining)to right; dashes, quatrefoil, and hooked swastikas as filling ornament; below, black band and part of lower frieze - antlers of goat to left; dashes as filling ornament; at right, possibly more antlers.
14.9.8 Core red. Red surface with linear decor in dull black on both sides. The underside appears to have a zigzag pattern above a more dense and busy pattern of lines and zigzags. No finished edges.
14.9.9 Core red. Surface red, with linear decoration in black on both sides. No finished edges.
26.2.35 No finished edges. The underside has broad streaky black bands on pale buff slip with slightly raised moulding that must have encircled top of stem with a thin and feint band around it. Inside the dish, on pale buff slip, from top to bottom is the lower part of animal zone showing two hooved feet and grass. Below is a red zigzag between two white-red-white on black bands. Below and in centre of dish (now missing) is a rosette made of leaves with dots and spokes bewteen.
26.2.36 No finished edges. The underside is reserved but there is a small trace of a band in the lowest corner. The topside has possible traces of creamy slip. In the centre are six red on black alternating tongues and these are between two stalked and dotted rosettes. Above is the remains of a band with superimposed white and red on black and a similar band is below.
26.2.39 No finished edges. On the underside of the dish fragment, on creamy-buff slip, are the slight remains of floral(?) zone above a black band thinned to golden brown at bottom with black rays and rough dots below that. The topside is onate with a meander pattern inside two bands at bottom of fragment with black above with white-red-white band superimposed. Above this band are red and white swirls surrounded by dots.
TEMP.2002.9.27 Almost flat but with no finished edges. Underside reserved and topside has a red zigzag pattern with transverse bars between lines. There are three rows of zigzag on this fragment.
TEMP.2002.9.28 Chunky fragment which is flat. The underside is reserved and the topside has three bands at the top and eight rows of irregular zigzag below. No finished edges.
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