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VESSEL
Unique ID: SF-9F9591
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A sherd from the body of a probable Roman greyware (GX) ceramic vessel. The sherd comes from the shoulders of the vessel just below the point at which it begins to expand into the rim. The is a line of small diagonal impressions on the outer face just below this point. It is light grey in colour. The fabric is hard and fine with rounded quartz sand (<1mm) and sparse mica.
c.f. a vessel with similar decoration from the Hacheston excavations (Blagg 2004, 168, fig.111, no.31C).
Length: 57.62mm, width: 42.50mm, thickness: 10.11mm, weight: 31.45g
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 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 57.62 mm
Width: 42.5 mm
Thickness: 10.11 mm
Weight: 31.45 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 2016
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Suffolk Coastal (District)
To be known as: Hacheston
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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