Rights Holder: York Museums Trust
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Unique ID: YORYM-319B15
Object type certainty: Certain
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A fragment of a handmade ceramic vessel of middle to late Iron Age date (500 BC - 100 AD). The fragment is a rim sherd from a probable jar or bowl with a hard abraded reduced fabric of a dark brownish-black colour. A fine grained sandy temper is present in high frequency within the fabric.
The fragment is 68.8mm long, 39.6mm wide, 20.4mm thick and weighs 43g.
Class: Rim
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Late
Date from: Circa 500 BC
Date to: Circa AD 100
Quantity: 1
Length: 68.8 mm
Width: 39.6 mm
Thickness: 20.4 mm
Weight: 43 g
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Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Fragment
Grid reference source: Centred on village (which isn't a parish)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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