Rights Holder: Somerset County Council
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Unique ID: SOM-6591BD
Object type certainty: Certain
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Four fragments of Roman tile including one hypocaust tile, one from a floor or roof and two pieces too small to classify but probably floor based on fabric.
The fabric of the hypocaust tile (box flue tile) is bright orange with sparse sand temper occasional calcite or limestone inclusions and very occasional rounded iron stone inclusions and occasional red stone inclusions of uncertain type. There are four lines of parallel comb marks on one face in a curve. The tile fragment has abraded breaks on all sides and weighs 58.7g.
The other three pieces have a pale to mid orange fabric with buff interior or patches. Fine tand temper and occasional angular limestone and rounded iron stone inclusions. All have abraded breaks. The largest piece has one straight side siggesting it is floor tile or brick. 52.0g in total.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 410
Quantity: 4
Weight: 110.7 g
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st July 2016 - Wednesday 31st August 2016
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Other reference: SCC receipt 16913
4 Figure: ST6828
Four figure Latitude: 51.05044855
Four figure longitude: -2.45789682
1:25K map: ST6828
1:10K map: ST62NE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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