Rights Holder: Royal Institution of Cornwall
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Unique ID: CORN-867E62
Object type certainty: Certain
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Pottery body sherd made of coarse admixture clay. The fabric has finer inclusions of pale felspars and mica, and additional larger inclusions such as quartz not natural to the clay to make it an admixture. The colour is orange to mid-brown on the exterior and on the interior of the sherd, and throughout the core. This type of admixture fabric is seen in Bronze Age vessels, dating from c.2100-1150 BC (Henrietta Quinnell, forthcoming).
Current location of find: Royal Cornwall Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Donated to a museum
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
Quantity: 1
Length: 50 mm
Width: 55 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight: 40.3 g
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 6th February 2008 - Wednesday 6th February 2008
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Other reference: 533.1
Museum accession number: 2011.23
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Fragment
4 Figure: SW4526
Four figure Latitude: 50.079285
Four figure longitude: -5.565627
1:25K map: SW4526
1:10K map: SW46NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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