Chersonesos - Record View Page: CH05SR

Archival Resource Key: ark:/87610/t66h2r/sfi_cd/CH05SR_2807

Short Description Game piece (fragment)
Description half fragment game piece; central convex mound 0,8cm with narrow 0,05 cm outer ring, small depression at center, wide convex band 0,75, slightly raised outer band 0,3 cm incised with single line making double ring around circumference; outer band smaller in profile/ thickness 0,4 cm. Smoothly finished both faces; reverse face has small 0,2 cm depression at center (from turning process?); appear to be 2 incised marks on central mound. Age range 10th- 14th cents

Context: CH05SR_460
- Two ashy patches, in the North and south of the room, separated by a bedrock ridge. The ashy deposits contain metallurgical debris inclusions, pottery, tile, and bone. The northern patch is approximately 60 cm in diameter and roughly circular, built up against a wall of the bedrock. The southern patch is roughly 1m by 1.5 m and contained similar finds. Soil is fine silt-loam, black. Same as CH04SR0460; see last year's context sheet for more details. In south-east half of the room almost non-existent over bedrock to center of the room deeper, cut hearth features in front of stairs in east corner.