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VESSEL
Unique ID: SWYOR-B32613
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A rim from a small handmade (blown) glass vessel of possible Roman date, AD 43 - 300. Only the rim of the vessel survives. It is everted and rounded and is not perfectly circular. One side of the rim is thicker and wider and this area also has a surface concretion. The fragment is only 15mm long from the top of the rim to the break, but the base of the neck is starting to flare outwards before the break. The glass is a pale blue green colour and there are fairly large oval air bubbles visible. There is slight irridescent patination on both the surface and the break, but the break is not worn. The maximum external diameter is 23mm at the rim, 14.1mm at the neck and 15.6mm at the break. The walls are 1.7mm - 2.7mm thick. 3.69g. Compare NMGW-7813F7, WMID-79B696 and BH-F2AB66. Jennifer Price (pers comm) has commented that the colour and form of the rim suggests that it may be the rim and top of neck of a small unguentarium of 1st-3rd century date.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 300
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 15 mm
Weight: 3.69 g
Diameter: 23 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st March 2015 - Thursday 21st May 2015
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: PAS form number 2609
Materials and construction
Primary material: Glass
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wakefield (Metropolitan District)
District: Wakefield (Metropolitan District)
Parish or ward: Airedale and Ferry Fryston (Metropolitan District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE4625
Four figure Latitude: 53.7193904
Four figure longitude: -1.30441382
1:25K map: SE4625
1:10K map: SE42NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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