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VESSEL
Unique ID: LANCUM-33A843
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An Iron Age vessel body sherd. Dates between c800 BC and c100 AD. The vessel realtes to the Dubonnii tribe whose capital was based on Cirencester or Corinium Dubonnorum as it was known in Roman times a Civitas until 409AD and Gloucester known as Colonia Neviana Glevum. The Dubonnii lived in small villages concentrated in fertile valleys.
There is evidence for a cult associated with the tribe in the Romano-British period; the evidence being coterminous with the tribe's territory. Sculpture has been found at: Gloucester, Cirencester, Nettleton, Bath, Wellow, and Aldsworth
A major study of Iron Age material has ben carried out by Tom Moore.
Tom Moore,Iron-Age Societies in the Severn-Cotswolds: Developing narratives of social and landscape change, BAR British Series 421, 2006
The length is 38mm, the width is 35mm, the thickness is 13mm, and the weight is 17.24g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 800 BC
Date to: Circa AD 100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 38 mm
Width: 35 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight: 17.24 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 4th March 2013
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Gloucestershire (County)
District: Cotswold (District)
To be known as: Aldsworth
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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