#FindsFriday Honey pot

Two pots in one this #FindsFriday⚱⚱

The pot you can see here being excavated by lovely Chloé is a storage jar that has been used as an urn to hold the cremated remains of a Roman person.

Presumably of local manufacture, these types of pots date from the late 1st or early 2nd century AD, and were often (re)used as cremation urns. These pot types are known to archaeologists as a ‘honey-pots’ and are identifiable by their tiny handles (much like the pots Winnie the Pooh 🐻 eats his honey from!).

On top of the honey-pot, a smaller pot has been used as a lid. This means the much of the human remains within has been preserved and can be identified by our Osteologist, which will undoubtedly help to unlock some of the secrets of this site.