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VESSEL
Unique ID: DOR-619174
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Fragment of a glass vessel. The piece is from the pointed base of a flask. Its original colour was a faint green, but the surface has now degraded to a yellowish iridescent flaky layer. There is a remnant of a separately applied strip with a wavy lower edge over one section of fragment.
Date: Uncertain
Weight: 3.12 g
Class: flask
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 3.12 g
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Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: North Dorset (District)
To be known as: Fifehead Magdalen
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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