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VESSEL
Unique ID: NARC-3DAF77
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A body sherd of a Roman greyware vessel. This type of greyware is typically also know as Alice Holt ware and was produced in the New Forest Region before being exported across Roman Britain from the 1st to 4th centuries AD.
This body sherd is slightly convex, and is likely to be from a standard household jar. The fabric is a coarse sandy fabric with few inclusions (5%), and the outer surface has a mottled grey effect.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: Circa AD 350
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 48 mm
Width: 55 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight: 19.26 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Wheel made
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: Kettering (District)
Parish or ward: Geddington (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP9185
Four figure Latitude: 52.455382
Four figure longitude: -0.662251
1:25K map: SP9185
1:10K map: SP98NW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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