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VESSEL
Unique ID: HESH-79596D
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Two abraded body sherds from Mortarias (mixing vessel with a gritted inner surface) dating from the Roman period AD 50-300. The larger fragment is from the base of the vessel whilst the fragment is laminated due to frost. The fabric is fairly uniform and hard with small angular grit, iron stone, and quartz inclusions. The fabric colour is a dirty beige white. A large proportion of the inner grinding surface survives; this has a number of angular, sub-angular, and rounded quartz, grit and iron stone inclusions impressed into the surface of the clay. The interior surface is worn. The mortaria is most likely to have been made at kilns in Oxfordshire.
The sherds measure:
- 62.8mm length, is 49.4mm width, 12.6mm thick base and 9.9mm side wall and weighs 57.0 grams. The base has a projected diameter of c. 16cm and represents more than 15%.
- (fragment) 26.9mm length, is 20.4mm width, 5.3mm thick, and weighs3.4 grams.
Class: Mortarium
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 50
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 2
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Wheel made
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
District: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Staunton on Wye (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO3546
Four figure Latitude: 52.10849101
Four figure longitude: -2.95051763
1:25K map: SO3546
1:10K map: SO34NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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