Finds Team pieces Roman jar back together from East Park, Sedgefield

Archaeology isn’t just about digging, and it’s not just in the trenches that finds are made. DV has been piecing together the evidence in the Finds Room…

There’s nothing more oddly satisfying than pieceing evidence back together, and that’s what our Finds Team has been doing – literally!

During our excavations of a Roman town at East Park, on the outskirts of Sedgefield, our Dig Team discovered loads of broken pottery. Although we could tell the pieces were Roman, we couldn’t easily tell what type of vessel they were from, while we were still in the field:

That was until our Finds Team pieced it all back together, to reveal the full shape of the pot. We now know that the pot dates from the 2nd-3rd century AD (100-200 AD).

This beautiful artefact was originally found placed inside a pit within the Roman settlement, along with another 86 sherds pot, a broken quern AND a roman coin:

We’ve also been examining another amazing Roman bowl from our dig at Sedgefield. Our archaeologists found this in another small pit within the settlement:

It likely dates from the first half of the 2nd century AD (between 100-150 AD). What’s really cool is that when we turned it over after cleaning, we saw a unique squiggly star-shaped decoration on the bottom:

Our pottery experts are now putting the final touches to their analysis, which will soon be available when we publish our official Dig Report. Stay tuned…