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VESSEL
Unique ID: SOM-AF595B
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A Roman ceramic rim sherd, from a large storage vessel with an everted rim. A very hard fired, wheel thrown, sand tempered fabric, with a slightly laminar structure. Pale grey/buff in colour. The temper includes frequent micaous flecks, very abundant sub-rounded to sub-angular black shale and translucent quartz, <1mm, as well as relatively frequent ferrous inclusions, <1mm. There is a slight ridge underneath the everted rim.
Dimensions: Weight 42.00g; thickness 18.5mm.
Class: Storage Vessel; Jar
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
Thickness: 18.5 mm
Weight: 42 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 2016 - Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt: 019094
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: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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