I took Moonbase Junior in the field next door the other day. Currently fallow, It's a big field with lots to see like a reed bed and old sheds.
The wildlife moment of the hike was an aerial mobbing of a Red Kite by five angry local Buzzards. It was amazing and Junior and me wuz thrilled.
A keen budding archeologist, Junior had a real good look around the hedge edges and the waste tracts for interesting bits.
This is what he found just lying around.
Golfballs, a Shippams potted beef glass jar, a Country Way milk bottle (no idea if the jar or bottle are old), fragments of pot and brick, a shell casing, a bulb bottom ...
.... and this curly bit of ornate glazed pottery, which he said was the best catch.
Amazingly Google Lens ID'd it and it turns out to be the foot of this German lustre ware pot basket! Again, no idea of age. You?
Still, Junior was chuffed with his field trip!
Sounds like a great day out. Google Lens did a great job there - it is very useful for things like this.
ReplyDeleteThe field surround my house are full of pottery, especially ceramics and clay pipes. I was told that as we live near the Leeds Liverpool Canal, the narrowboats would load up with fresh veg from the fields and transport it into Liverpool to market. Then the boats would load up with 'nightsoil' from the city, to use as ballast, so the boats would ride low in the water and clear the tunnels easily. The nightsoil - refuse from the city and contents of the sewers and septic tanks, would be spread on the fields as fertiliser. Naturally, it wasn't picked over and just went on raw, so any broken crockery that had been thrown would end up on the fields, to be ploughed in and broken down further, presumably to help aerate the soil. Walking the fields today, its still possible to find all kinds of interesting shards and very rarely, the odd clay pipe bowl. Bill
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