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VESSEL
Unique ID: YORYM-75B3E1
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment of a cast copper alloy vessel of medieval date. The fragment is part of a probable cooking vessel. The rim is roughly crescent-shaped in section and rectangular in plan with no traces of the body of the vessel surviving. The breaks at either end of the rim fragment are very worn. The internal surface is decorated with incised parallel grooves while the external surface is undecorated.
The metal is a dark greenish-black colour and is slightly worn. The fragment is 46.7mm long, 9.6mm wide, 2.9mm thick and weighs 5.5g.
While it is not possible to allocate this fragment to a specific type Geake, p.45 suggests a mid 13th to 16th century date for cooking vessels.
Class: Rim
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1250
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 46.7 mm
Width: 9.6 mm
Thickness: 2.9 mm
Weight: 5.5 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Yorkshire (County)
District: Richmondshire (District)
To be known as: Catterick Area
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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