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VESSEL
Unique ID: PUBLIC-327703
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A sherd of pottery from the rim of a Post Medieval open bowl. This rim is rounded, protuding on the outside to form a beaded lip. The sherd extends for the full height, 26mm, of the bowl and includes a bit of the base. The sherd is less than 5% of the circumference making the bowl diameter hard to measure.
The fabric is hard and course being orange in colour. On the outer surface are patcehs of olive green glaze and larger areas of grey residue from the glaze. There are inclusions of black grit, red-brown grit, grey grit, and buff grit, quartz pieces and some micra.
The bowl wall tapers from 11.4mm below the rim to 9.3mm thick.
The fragment is 42mm wide by 45mm tall.
This fragments weighs 26.5g.
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: with finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 26 mm
Thickness: 11.4 mm
Weight: 26.5 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Completeness: Fragment
Surface Treatment: Glazed
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: Brampton Abbotts
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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