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VESSEL
Unique ID: WILT-695A14
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
The base of a Roman New Forest Ware ceramic vessel (c. AD 260/70-c. 410). The wheel made base is the foot-ring from a New Forest Colour-coated beaker. It has a light grey reduced core with a light orange brown inner and outer surface. The colour coating on the outside is dark grey. The artefact is decorated with three circumferential incisions are visible just above the base. Vestiges of the body survive.
The base is 27.9mm in diameter, the artefact is 42.6mm in length, 36.9mm wide, 23.75mm in height and weighs 20.33 grams.
Class: base
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 260
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 42.6 mm
Height: 23.75 mm
Width: 36.9 mm
Weight: 20.33 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 3460, 3545
Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Wheel made
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Tisbury
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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