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Unique ID: YORYM-48937A
Object type certainty: Certain
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A sherd of a glass vessel of post-medieval date. The sherd is a small translucent blue glass fragment which appears yellowish-green when held up to the light. Some small air bubbles appear within this shard along with a vein of white running through it and traces of possible burning to one end.
The sherd is 18.9mm long, 13.7mm wide, 4.2mm thick and weighs 1.4g.
Jennifer Price, Emeritus Professor at Durham University, states that the sherd is likely to be from a post-medieval wine bottle. Dr Birgitta Hoffmann, University of Liverpool, states that such fragments are very common items found frequently on fieldwalking sites, which have had 18/19th century night soil and they appear to be some sort of industrial glass.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Quantity: 1
Length: 18.9 mm
Width: 13.7 mm
Thickness: 4.2 mm
Weight: 1.4 g
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4 Figure: SE6565
Four figure Latitude: 54.07683278
Four figure longitude: -1.00806035
1:25K map: SE6565
1:10K map: SE66NE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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