It is said that, on this occasion, a voter, who did not know him, came up to him, and giving him his sherd, desired him to write upon it the name of Aristides.
The Roman material is moderately abraded but includes several groups of sherds from the same vessel (sherd families).
And his flesh was dried upon his bones, like a potter's sherd.
Therefore, only the presence of a stamped sherd is absolutely incontrovertible evidence that a particular sherd is not of Iron Age date.
Dateable material included residual Period 2 to Period 7 ceramic and a sherd of Cistercian Ware.