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BRICK
Unique ID: PUBLIC-8FF4C2
Object type certainty: Probably
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A fragment of hard building material, most probably plaster or brick, of roughly pyramidal form. The exterior is dull pink-grey on all four faces with dark brown staining on one upper face, with fissures and voids on the other two.The underneath face is smoother with one or two large pebble inclusions and voids. Fractures are hackly. It is dated to between c43 and c410 AD and is moderately abraded.
The length is 59 mm, width 48 mm, thickness 24 mm and the weight, 31.88 g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Donated to a museum
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Exactly AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 59 mm
Width: 48 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight: 31.88 g
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Region: North West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cumbria (County)
District: South Lakeland (District)
To be known as: Watercrook
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (From FLO)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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