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VESSEL
Unique ID: SWYOR-2E1B4E
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Three base sherds from different ceramic vessels of Post Medieval date.
1. Dark red, very hard fabric with few visible inclusions. This dark brown to black glaze on both faces. Concave base with kiln stacking scar, rounded projecting corner and inward sloping wall. Base diameter of about 80mm. 31.2mm high. 41.48g. Probably 17th centruy blackware.
2. Yellow grey, hard fabric with sparse brick red (grog) inclusions. Orange red outer face. Traces of a similar colour on the inner face, and of thick black glaze internally, now almost entirely missing. Rounded foot ring and shallow, outward sloping walls. Base diameter about 100mm. 22.2mm high, 8.91g.
3. Yellow grey, hard, fine textured stoneware with few visible inclusions. Horizontal grooves on the outer face. fairy straight walls. Clear glaze on outer face, mottled yellow and brown on the inner face, an a splodge of dark brown to black glaze on the base. Insufficient outer edge surviving to estimate base diameter. 43.6mm long, 13.4mm high and 6.2g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 3
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st August 2015 - Thursday 26th November 2015
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: PAS form number 2784
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Calderdale (Metropolitan District)
District: Calderdale (Metropolitan District)
Parish or ward: Wadsworth (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SD9233
Four figure Latitude: 53.79324863
Four figure longitude: -2.12292157
1:25K map: SD9233
1:10K map: SD93SW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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