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VESSEL

Unique ID: SOMDOR-205563

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

61 sherds of Black-burnished ware type pottery. Reduced pale grey fabric with fine sand temper. Several sherds are burnished externally. The wall thickness varies from thick, hand made vessels to thinner, wheel made ones. All the sherds are from jars and there are 8 everted rims, 1 base and 52 body sherds.

Class: Black-burnished ware
Sub class: jar

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 125
Date to: Circa AD 250

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 61
Weight: 478 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st January 2003

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Pottery
Completeness: Fragment
Surface Treatment: Burnished

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: Sedgemoor (District)
Parish or ward: Stawell (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: ST3638
Four figure Latitude: 51.137677
Four figure longitude: -2.916146
1:25K map: ST3638
1:10K map: ST33NE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Controlled archaeological investigation
General landuse: Cultivated land

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Recording Institution: SOMDOR
Created: 19 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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