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Unique ID: LANCUM-9C0167
Object type certainty: Certain
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Wheel thrown rim sherd of a mortarium. The fabric is white-cream with quartz and red-brown and black angular grit inclusions. The sherd demonstrates a hooked flange and a rim on the interior face. There is no decoration or evidence of a potter's stamp. This sherd derives from a mortarium made in the Mancetter / Hartshill factory in Warwickshire and is probably second century in date.
Class: Mancetter / Hartshill
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: Circa AD 200
Quantity: 1
Length: 53 mm
Width: 31 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight: 19.97 g
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 2005
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Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Wheel made
Completeness: Fragment
4 Figure: SD5528
Four figure Latitude: 53.74642
Four figure longitude: -2.683827
1:25K map: SD5528
1:10K map: SD52NE
Grid reference source: Centred on village (which isn't a parish)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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de la Bedoyere, G. | 2000 | Pottery in Roman Britain | Princes Risborough | Shire Publications | 40-44 |