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Unique ID: WAW-5FF6C5
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published
A bodysherd of a handmade ceramic vessel.
The sherd is 9.83mm thick and weighs 13.5g. It is 33.52mm long and 36.49mm wide.
The sherd consists of a bodysherd, in a fabric is 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).
Sherd specific details:
Fabric type: frequent fossil shell
Sherd type: bodysherd
Wall thickness: 9.83mm
Firing condition: unoxidised exterior, unoxidised core, unoxidised interior
Hardness: Hard
Surface texture: Smooth
Condition of sherds: Slightly abraded
Sherd/fragment was not 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
Length: 33.52 mm
Width: 36.49 mm
Thickness: 9.83 mm
Weight: 13.5 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 28th July 2003
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Other reference: Brailes
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Fragment
4 Figure: SP3141
Four figure Latitude: 52.066511
Four figure longitude: -1.549192
1:25K map: SP3141
1:10K map: SP34SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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