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VESSEL

Unique ID: HAMP2278

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

Cast copper-alloy bucket or bowl foot. Hollow, pelta-shaped mount with a central groove and short vertical grooves at the edges. Upper surface scratched. There is a good parallel from Colchester, found in destruction debris of Period 3 at Balkerne Lane excavations; it has been dated to c. AD 60-c. AD 80 (Crummy 1983: 72-73, fig. 76, ref: 2051).

Class: Bucket/bowl foot

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 100

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 38 mm
Width: 21.5 mm
Thickness: 5.5 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st March 2002

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Complete

Spatial metadata

Region: South East (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Winchester (District)
Parish or ward: Corhampton and Meonstoke (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SU6321
Four figure Latitude: 50.984966
Four figure longitude: -1.103858
1:25K map: SU6321
1:10K map: SU62SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Operations to a depth less than 0.25 m

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Crummy, N.	1983	Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester, 1971-9	Colchester	Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd	73	no. 2051 fig. 76

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Recording Institution: HAMP
Created: 21 years ago
Updated: 3 years ago

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