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VESSEL
Unique ID: SWYOR-9AE583
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment of a ceramic vessel; the upper part of a jug handle from a Late Medieval or Post Medieval vessel. The fabric is fairly hard and is bright orange. It is fine textured with occasional very small inclusions of rounded white particles and rounded black lumps. A thick glossy orange brown glaze survives on the inside of the vessel, but on the outside only the purple under layers of the glaze are present.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 50.86 mm
Width: 55.11 mm
Thickness: 14.53 mm
Weight: 33.95 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 28th August 2010 - Monday 30th August 2010
Rally details.
This object was found at Rally UK @ Much Hadham, Sawbridgeworth - 2010
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: PAS Reference Number 1841
Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Wheel made
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hertfordshire (County)
District: East Hertfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: High Wych (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL4716
Four figure Latitude: 51.82329
Four figure longitude: 0.13154
1:25K map: TL4716
1:10K map: TL41NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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