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• Object type: strainer
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Image	Object Type	Find number	Broadperiod	County	Actions
	Strainer	NLM-02C2C6	Roman	North East Lincolnshire	xml | csv json
Pottery Strainer base fragment. Greyware. Abraded sherd retaining twenty round apertures of diameter 3.5mm, probably from a cheese press or related utensil. The holes do not all - so far as may be seen without aggressive investigation - carry through the sherd. This sherd was kindly identified b...
	Strainer	WILT-31A2D7	Roman	Wiltshire	xml | csv json
A fragment of Romano-British (AD 43-410) ceramic strainer/ colander or cheese press, of sandy greyware with micaceous inclusions. It measures 28.91x16.51x6.35mm and weighs 2.4g. The fragment is slightly curving with 4 holes remaining in the surface and a further four incomplete holes at the (brok...
	Strainer	HAMP-E4EE41	Roman	Hampshire	xml | csv json
A body and base fragment from a Roman strainer or colander in a greyware fabric. The base is flat with multiple small circular holes. The side rises at c. 60 degrees with evidence of wheel throwing. The base is estimated at 80mm in diameter and the wall is at least 50mm tall and 5mm thick. It has...
	Strainer	NLM-E9C992	Roman	Lincolnshire	xml | csv json
Pottery Greyware. Base sherd bearing five holes of diameter 2.5mm, from a strainer or colander with a grooved foot ring, of estimated basal diameter 70mm. Suggested date: Early Roman, 40-100. Kindly identified by members of the Community Archaeology Programme. Weight: 12.3gms
	Strainer	NLM-5642B3	Roman	Lincolnshire	xml | csv json
Pottery, reduced sandy fabric, Greyware. Vessel. Sherd from base and lower body of a strainer or cheese-press with foot-ring; ten round basal perforations were pressed from outside the base of the vessel before firing. Length: 51mm, Thickness (body): 8mm, Weight: 26.46gms.
	Strainer	SUSS-D2F814	Roman	West Sussex	xml | csv json
Fragment from a ceramic strainer or cheese press, probably Romano-British. The fabric is pale brown-grey in colour with abundent fine sand temper. There are numerous pockmarks in both surfaces, grooves along the broken edges indicate that some of these pockmarks are holes running through the vess...
	Strainer	NARC-CBF1E7	Roman	Northamptonshire	xml | csv json
Ceramic fragment: a sherd from the base of a Roman strainer of an undiagnostic, sandy, yellow-grey fabric. It has a slightly bowl-shaped profile, and features a number of perforations in an irregular arrangement. L.: 60.5mm W.: 42.3mm Th.: 12.0mm Wt.: 26.2g
	Strainer	HAMP-D6E3C7	Roman	Hampshire	xml | csv json
A pair of worn base sherds probably from two separate Roman strainers. They both are of a sandy, yellow-grey fabric. One features a number of perforations in an irregular pattern; the patterning of the straining holes on the other sherd seems to form a more regular grid. The latter also has a ...
	Strainer	SWYOR-1CD5F6	Roman	South Yorkshire	xml | csv json
Copper alloy broken handle from a Roman strainer. The handle has broken into 3 pieces but these pieces form the whole handle. The handle is cast to form a flat slender handle. At the terminal the handle flares out forming a triangular shaped end. At the waist, the handle widens again and a sm...
	Strainer	YORYMB1015	Roman	East Riding Of Yorkshire	xml | csv json
crude dark grey ware bowl fragment, just under rim to base. Crude square shaped apertures made while clay still wet, by hand, flan around openings (implement has been wiggled to make hole), porous matrix with high, small, siliceous inclusions
	Strainer	WMID2419	Roman	Warwickshire	xml | csv json
The sherd is slightly concave and has regular circular perforations, which have been pierced by hand. The fabric is a red/brown colour with grey coloured surfaces. Inclusions are few and are varied in size, mainly sandy. The fabric is highly fired.