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Unique ID: WAW-CECD62
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A bodysherd of a handmade ceramic vessel.
The sherd is 7.58mm thick and weighs 5.3g. It is 19.02mm long and 30.48mm wide.
The sherd consists of a bodysherd, in a fabric is similar to that published as MAL B (Palaeozoic limestone tempered type) in McSloy 2006, p 39, dated to the Middle Iron Age to the Early Roman Period (-500 BC to 200 AD).
Sherd specific details:
Fabric type: Malvernian limestone tempered
Sherd type: bodysherd
Wall thickness: 7.58mm
Firing condition: unoxidised exterior, unoxidised core, unoxidised interior.
Hardness: Hard
Surface texture: Smooth, slightly soapy.
Condition of sherds: Slightly abraded.
Sherd was photographed.
Reference:
Coleman, L., Hancocks, A., and Watts, M. 2006 Excavations on the Wormington to Tirley Pipeline, 2000. Four sites by the Carrant Brook and River Isbourne, Gloucestershire and Worchestershire. Cotswold Archaeology Monograph No. 3. Cirencester
McSloy, E.R. 2006 The Pottery pp37-57 in Coleman, Hancocks and Watts 2006
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 500 BC
Date to: Circa AD 200
Quantity: 1
Length: 19.02 mm
Width: 30.48 mm
Thickness: 7.58 mm
Weight: 5.3 g
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st September 2010
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Other reference: Brailes
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Fragment
4 Figure: SP3041
Four figure Latitude: 52.066565
Four figure longitude: -1.56378
1:25K map: SP3041
1:10K map: SP34SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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