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VESSEL
Unique ID: SOM-2574F1
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Six body shards from Roman greyware vessels, found in the same field. All have a fairly similar hard, fine, thin-walled fabric, with a pinkish-brown core, showing streaks of grey in the centre, and darker grey outer surfaces. The fabric is tempered with varying quantities of poorly sorted rounded quartz (<2mm), dark iron ore (<1mm), occasional poorly sorted soft chalky fragments (<2mm) and sparse fine mica (<0.5mm), with frequent rounded voids (<1.5mm).
1. Length: 31.24mm, Width: 28.58mm, Thickness: 3.97mm, Weight: 5.33g
2. Length: 31.89mm, Width: 32.12mm, Thickness: 4.61mm, Weight: 4.95g
3. Length: 34.69mm, Width: 27.80mm, Thickness: 6.62mm, Weight: 7.23g
4. Length: 24.58mm, Width: 22.35mm, Thickness: 3.97mm, Weight: 2.58g
5. Length: 13.64mm, Width: 10.09mm, Thickness: 3.43mm, Weight: 0.54g
6. Length: 17.48mm, Width: 16.05mm, Thickness: 5.39mm, Weight: 1.59
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 6
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 24th March 2010
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Entry 020586
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
District: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Winscombe and Sandford
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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