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VESSEL
Unique ID: PUBLIC-6E4E17
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment from the rim of a cast lead alloy cooking pot of Medieval or Post Medieval date (1300-1600). The pot is dark grey in colour, with a burnished inner surface and a unworked outer surface that is coated in carbonised soot. The rim is rounded down on the inside only, and the fragment is undecorated. The fragment has a slight inwards curve from the rim downwards. The wall is 2.7mm thick. The fragment is too narrow to estimate a diameter.
The fragment is 47.1mm tall and 36.7mm wide, it weighs13.0g
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: with finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 47.1 mm
Width: 36.7 mm
Thickness: 2.7 mm
Weight: 13 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Surface Treatment: Burnished
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
District: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Kings Caple
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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