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VESSEL

Unique ID: SUSS-4CDC88

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Rim sherd from a coarse sand tempered Medieval cooking pot, c.1225-1300 AD. The fabric is pale orange with a mid grey-brown core. The rim is projects outwards at a right angle with a flat top, slightly rounded outer edge and concave lower side; it is too small to reconstruct the original diameter. It weighs 4.4 grams.

Notes:

Part of a large collection of material from one garden. The majority are ceramics including brick, tile and vessel fragments. Previous finds from the same area included Roman, Saxon and Medieval ceramics. The earliest pottery in this collection is one fragment of Late Iron Age-Roman material, the remainder are Medieval, Post Medieval and Modern. There is also some worked flint, Post Medieval glass, Post Medieval clay pipes, undatable iron nails and a mix of modern materials.

Class: Cooking

Chronology

Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1225
Date to: Circa AD 1300

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Weight: 4.4 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 2005

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: Bag 4

Materials and construction

Primary material: Ceramic
Completeness: Fragment

Spatial metadata

Region: South East (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: West Sussex (County)
District: Horsham (District)
Parish or ward: Henfield (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: TQ2116
Four figure Latitude: 50.930769
Four figure longitude: -0.279537
1:25K map: TQ2116
1:10K map: TQ21NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Building work
General landuse: Other
Specific landuse: Garden

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Created: 15 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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