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VESSEL

Unique ID: DUR-632AB8

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Fragment of Roman (?) pottery- body sherd. It has a red-orange colour outer layer with a white inner fabric. On one face it has a pattern of incised semi-circles in a line.

Reference no. 1303.

Subsequent actions

Current location of find: Bowes Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Donated to a museum

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: AD 410

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight: 2.7 g

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Wheel made
Completeness: Fragment

Spatial metadata

Region: North East (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
District: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Piercebridge (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: NZ2015
Four figure Latitude: 54.529889
Four figure longitude: -1.69247
1:25K map: NZ2015
1:10K map: NZ21NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Fieldwalking
Current location: Bowes Museum
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Character undetermined

References cited

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Simon wrote @ 11:15:55 on the 2nd May 2011.
Rouletted decoration on the side of the pottery fragment

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Recording Institution: DUR
Created: 14 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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