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VESSEL
Unique ID: WMID-3682B7
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A rimsherd of a wheelthrown ceramic vessel.
The sherd is 13.90mm thick and weighs 17.5g. It is 33.75mm long and 30.02mm 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: Expanded Square
Rim diameter: 19cm
% of rim present: 3%
Wall thickness: 13.90mm
Firing condition: oxidised exterior, unoxidised core, oxidised interior.
Surface texture: rough
Condition of sherds: Slightly abraded.
Sherd was photographed.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1000
Date to: Circa AD 1200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 33.75 mm
Width: 30.02 mm
Thickness: 13.9 mm
Weight: 17.5 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 17th October 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Brailes
Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Wheel made
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Warwickshire (County)
District: Stratford-on-Avon (District)
Parish or ward: Brailes (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
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.
References cited
No references cited so far.
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