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VESSEL
Unique ID: SF-9E8415
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete fired clay/pottery 'chicken feeder' of Post-Medieval date. It has a flat base that is roughly oval shaped in form but missing its outer edges due to old breaks. This is formed from a well-refined clay that has some grog tempering, is an orange/brown colour and has fired grey at the core. On the front face of the object are a series of three surviving, and probably a fourth, projecting circumferential rings that divide the surface into four deep circular troughs into which grain or water may have been placed. It measures 185mm in length, 150mm in width, 35mm in height, 9mm in thickness at base, and weighs 511g. This is an unusual ceramic/pottery vessel, probably a chicken feeder. Its findspot suggests an early Post-Medieval date, possibly in the 16th to 17th centuries AD.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 185 mm
Height: 35 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight: 511 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st June 2011
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Wheel made
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: St. Edmundsbury (District)
To be known as: Stradishall
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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