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VESSEL
Unique ID: NMS-4CEB66
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Fragment, of Roman lead vessel, perhaps a font. Now sub-rectangular, with two intersecting moulded cabled ribs and an area of roughly crosshatched scratched lines and small patches of iron corrosion on one face. The inner face is plain. There is no original edge, and although three sides have been fairly neatly cut, one is irregular with multiple cut and hack marks. For similar vessels see LIN-E8F806, WMID-7FF438.
Surviving dimensions 150 x 95mm. Thickness7mm.
Class: Font
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 150 mm
Width: 95 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st February 2012 - Wednesday 29th February 2012
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 56836
Other reference: IND14022012ED
Materials and construction
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