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VESSEL
Unique ID: SOM-42D1DC
Object type certainty: Certain
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A Roman ceramic sherd from a Black Burnished ware (BB1, from Wareham/Poole Harbour, Dorset) vessel, dating c. AD 50-150. A rim sherd probably from a small bowl with a diameter of around 8cm, the sherd has a short vertical rounded rim extending imediately from a curved body, burnished and decorated on the external surface, with a cross-hatched or lattice pattern on an unburnished band below the burnished rim. A hard fired fabric, with buff oxidised internal surface and grey core. Common sub-rounded translucent quartz, <1mm, frequent mica flecks, rare sub-angular orange/brown iron stone, <1.25mm.
Length: 27.3mm, Width: 29.4mm, Thickness: 8.2mm, Weight: 6.96g.
The sherd appears to be a fragment of a small bowl, Seager Smith & Davies' (1993: 234-235) form 32, which would give a mid first to early second century date.
Class:
Bowl
Sub class: Type 32
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 50
Date to: Circa AD 150
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 27.3 mm
Width: 29.4 mm
Thickness: 8.2 mm
Weight: 6.96 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt: 017417
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: South Somerset (District)
To be known as: Martock CP
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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