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VESSEL
Unique ID: HAMP-510A8A
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete Roman (AD 43-410) ceramic greyware open 'footring' type base, retaining part of the vessel above, measuring 66.9mm in diameter at the base, 48.7mm diameter below the broken base of the vessel, 37.4mm height and weighing 82.79g. The wall of the foot ring measures 1.9mm in thickness. A trainagular section is missing from the wall of the footring. The fabric is rough to touch, grey-brown in colour with medium-large flint inclusions.
Lorraine Mepham, Wessex Archaeology, comments 'Pedestal bases on Late Iron Age and early Roman pots tend to be closed, but there are open 'footring' type bases as well such as an example from the Westhampnett Late Iron Age cemetery in West Sussex Fitzpatrick, 1997; no. 27343).
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
Height: 37.4 mm
Weight: 82.79 g
Diameter: 66.9 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 20th December 2015 - Sunday 20th December 2015
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Hampshire Cultural Trust Object Entry Form WINCM 409
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Test Valley (District)
To be known as: Nether Wallop
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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