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Unique ID: WMID-366DD3
Object type certainty: Certain
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A rimsherd of a wheelthrown ceramic vessel.
The sherd is 8.06mm thick and weighs 6.6g. It is 19.37mm long and 31.30mm wide.
The sherd consists of a rimsherd, in a fabric with fine sand and quartz inclusions, fired to a mid browncolour. The sherd is mostly likely from a cooking pot style of vessel. These type of coarseware fabrics tend to date from 11th to 13th Centuries.
Sherd specific details:
Fabric type: Fine sand & quartz inclusions, occasional metamorphic rock
Sherd type: rim
Rim type: Square
Rim diameter: 21cm
% of rim present: 4
Wall thickness: 8.06mm
Firing condition: oxidised exterior, unoxidised core, oxidised interior.
Surface texture: rough
Condition of sherds: Slightly abraded.
Sherd was photographed.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1000
Date to: Circa AD 1200
Quantity: 1
Length: 19.37 mm
Width: 31.3 mm
Thickness: 8.06 mm
Weight: 6.6 g
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st June 2011
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Other reference: Brailes
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Wheel made
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: SP2941
Four figure Latitude: 52.066618
Four figure longitude: -1.578367
1:25K map: SP2941
1:10K map: SP24SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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