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Unique ID: WAW-CFD025
Object type certainty: Certain
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A basesherd of a handmade ceramic vessel.
The sherd is 8.58mm thick and weighs 4.5g.
The sherd consists of a basesherd, in a fabric is similar to similar to that published as SH1 (Standard common fossil shell type) in McSloy 2006, p 38, dated to Middle to Late Iron Age (500 BC to 100 AD) but with occasional small annular metamorphic rock inclusions.
Sherd specific details:
Fabric type: frequent fossil shell, occasional metamorphic rock inclusions.
Sherd type: basesherd
Base type: FLT
Wall thickness: 8.58mm
Firing condition: unoxidised exterior, unoxidised core, oxidised interior.
Hardness: Medium
Surface texture: Smooth
Condition of sherds: Slightly abraded.
Sherd was photographed.
Reference:
Coleman, L., Hancocks, A., and Watts, M. 2006 Excavations on the Wormington to Tirley Pipeline, 2000. Four sites by the Carrant Brook and River Isbourne, Gloucestershire and Worchestershire. Cotswold Archaeology Monograph No. 3. Cirencester
McSloy, E.R. 2006 The Pottery pp37-57 in Coleman, Hancocks and Watts 2006
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 500 BC
Date to: Circa AD 100
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 8.58 mm
Weight: 4.5 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 5th March 2012
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Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Fragment
4 Figure: SP3040
Four figure Latitude: 52.057575
Four figure longitude: -1.563867
1:25K map: SP3040
1:10K map: SP34SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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