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VESSEL
Unique ID: SF-8AF208
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A sherd from a probable early medieval (EMW) or medieval coarseware (MCW) vessel. The sherd comes from the wall of the vessel and is undiagnostic in shape. The fabric is hard and coarse and is tempered with plentiful rounded quartz sand, some translucent and some white in colour (<1mm). The core is buff coloured, the inner surface slightly oxidised and the outer surface greyish. It is heavily abraded.
Length: 29.68mm, width: 22.41mm, thickness: 6.83mm, weight: 4.74g
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 850
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 29.68 mm
Width: 22.41 mm
Thickness: 6.83 mm
Weight: 4.74 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st June 2017
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