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BOWL
Unique ID: NLM-35BE76
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Stone, pale grey in colour with a hard granular texture and rare sparkling and very rare black specks as inclusions: Bowl fragment.
Shard from a globular stone vessel of estimated rim diameter c.180mm. The rim is flattened on its top and the interior wall smoothed and also of a slightly darker grey tint, with a sharp change in its direction at the base [otherwise lost]. The outside surface and fracture surfaces are rougher in their texture. The manufacture of plain bowls and other objects of soapstone was a Viking Age feature of occupation on the Orkney Islands. Such an object could have been imported or brought by settlers arriving from that direction. It may alternatively be made in the same tradition but of a different stone - in this case, a possibly harder material. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 850-1000.
Height: 43.8mm, Thickness (wall): 15mm, Weight: 113.95gms.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Scandinavian style
Date from: Circa AD 850
Date to: Circa AD 1000
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 43.8 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight: 113.95 g
Diameter: 180 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 20th October 2015
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM30435
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: near Market Rasen
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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