I think that looks like quite an interesting piece in the first post, but i'm no expert.
I've been renovating our old farmhouse and taking it back to what I think it would have looked liked back in the day. I took down the plastic gutter (it's now got this years peas sown in it!) and replaced it with period looking (but with a modern twist) metal gutter. I took a guess at what kind of pattern it would have looked like and spunked an obscene amount of money on it, but hey, it'll outlast me and the house deserves it.
Then some time later I'm digging some way in front of the house and up comes a piece of what I assume is the original gutter buried there. I was so happy to find out I'd matched the pattern pretty well, more by luck than judgement.
It's a very dark earthenware clay, and it looks like it has been press moulded to give the decoration but it could have been added; hard to tell from this fragment, probably late 19th century.
Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
I'm always fascinated by archaeology programmes ( Dig for Britain being a current one ). The tiniest bits they unearth and ID immediately ( or seemingly so ) as something relevant. /important.
A friend of mine is the senior archaeologist who excavated the Hoxne Hoard … when she was first called to the site and ‘collected’ the first finds she brought them first to our house (we lived just a few miles away) … parking the back of her car up against our house wall for safety as the treasures were in the boot … while she borrowed our phone (no mobiles then of course) to call Halesworth police station and arrange for them to take care of the treasure overnight … it was locked in the cells …the most secure place available … it was so exciting. We were sworn to secrecy 🤐 The secret did get out a few days later … but not from us.
We really did feel as if history was being made around us @BenCotto … I can still see her car parked on our front lawn!!! up against the dining room wall!!! Thankfully she knew it was the sort of lawn that’d already had several motor bikes disassembled on it that year (we had a teenage son) 😂
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
How exciting, @Dovefromabove! We found lots of bits of clay pipes in our garden in Northumberland, and loads of bits of pottery everywhere we've lived, but nothing really interesting.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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I've been renovating our old farmhouse and taking it back to what I think it would have looked liked back in the day. I took down the plastic gutter (it's now got this years peas sown in it!) and replaced it with period looking (but with a modern twist) metal gutter. I took a guess at what kind of pattern it would have looked like and spunked an obscene amount of money on it, but hey, it'll outlast me and the house deserves it.
Then some time later I'm digging some way in front of the house and up comes a piece of what I assume is the original gutter buried there. I was so happy to find out I'd matched the pattern pretty well, more by luck than judgement.
As for my chip, I'm thinking anything from late Victorian to 1940s. I'm not very clued up about pottery.
or if you live near Penshaw it might even be ‘ The Lampton Worm ‘
@Redwing yes I think you're right, the edge rim is a bit too neat to not be press moulded. I wonder if it was a plant pot.
@philippasmith2 I'm with you there, I love those programmes. I'd love to have been an archaeologist.
https://archaeology.co.uk/articles/news/hoxne.htm
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/932/the-roman-hoxne-hoard/
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.