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VESSEL
Unique ID: CORN-09C494
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Pottery body sherd made of a coarse fabric with an uneven surface that is undecorated. The fabric has large inclusions of quartz, and a dark material, possibly tourmaline, with a mid-brown exterior and dark brown interior. This type of admixture fabric is found in Bronze Age vessels dating from c.2100 -1150 BC (Henrietta Quinnell, forthcoming).
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Royal Cornwall Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Donated to a museum
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 2100 BC
Date to: Circa 1150 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 18 mm
Width: 21.5 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight: 4.3 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 2nd February 2010 - Tuesday 2nd February 2010
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 578.20
Museum accession number: 2011.23
Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Paul (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW4526
Four figure Latitude: 50.079285
Four figure longitude: -5.565627
1:25K map: SW4526
1:10K map: SW46SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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