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VESSEL
Unique ID: CORN-A51DA3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Pottery body sherd of hard-baked clay, perhaps part of a mould, so that the ceramic has been altered during heating. There are various marks and impressions on the interior of the sherd, but may have been part of the moulded decoration, but the detail is unclear. The fabric is fine with few visible inclusions and is dark grey throughout, where the vessel might have been exposed to naked flames. Bronze Age, c.2100-1150 BC.
Notes:
See next record for interior image - sherd is bottom right in images
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Royal Cornwall Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Donated to a museum
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 2100 BC
Date to: Circa 1150 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 15 mm
Width: 14 mm
Thickness: 9.5 mm
Weight: 1.2 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st June 2007 - Wednesday 6th June 2007
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 498.7
Museum accession number: 2011.23
Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Paul (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW4627
Four figure Latitude: 50.088689
Four figure longitude: -5.552343
1:25K map: SW4627
1:10K map: SW47SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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