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TILE
Unique ID: ESS-E9CBE6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Roman roof tile: six fragments of tegula and one fragment of imbrex.
Roman pottery: one sherd of samian, one sherd of samian mortarium, one sherd of cream-coloured mortarium.
Possible Medieval or post-Medieval pottery: one rim sherd in orange fabric, one body sherd in reddish fabric with crushed stone temper.
Post-Medieval pottery: two rims and two handle fragments of post-Medieval red earthenware with brown glaze.
Undated pottery: three sherds including one handle fragment.
Class: tile and pottery
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Finder applying for an export licence
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 19
Weight: 860 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 2010 - Friday 30th April 2010
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Essex (County)
District: Colchester (District)
Parish or ward: Birch and Winstree (District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL9222
Four figure Latitude: 51.86353619
Four figure longitude: 0.78707528
1:25K map: TL9222
1:10K map: TL92SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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