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VESSEL
Unique ID: PUBLIC-FB7DF3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A sherd from the incurved rim of a bowl. The fabric is hard-fired and banded with a pink oxidised inner surface and a grey reduced outer surface. There are profuse, angular inclusions of bivalve shell with grain size ranging from <1mm to >3mm, poorly sorted by size. The sherd appears hand-made rather than wheel-thrown and the surface unfinished. Breaks are fresh and un-abraded but there is some abrasion to other surfaces. The curve of the sherd suggests a bowl with rim of diameter c. 210mm.
The sherd is similar to the Lincoln-Kiln type and other local shelly-wares from the 9th-10th centuries and probably dates to that period.
Class:
Shelly-ware
Sub class: Bowl
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 850
Date to: Circa AD 1000
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 59.17 mm
Width: 54.43 mm
Thickness: 6.63 mm
Weight: 38.13 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 14th March 2010
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
To be known as: South Somercotes
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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