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FLUE TILE
Unique ID: NARC-CAA495
Object type certainty: Certain
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A ceramic building material sherd and two associated oyster shell fragments of Roman date (AD 43-410). The sherd is a flue tile fragment. The fabric is buff in colour and sandy with differential oxidization and a dark grey inner core. One side of the sherd is sanded and blackened and the other surface is combed in one direction before firing.
The textured striations would serve as a key for plaster applied on the outer sides of a box or flue tile. This would carry hot air from a furnace around a building, through its walls and under its floors, as part of a hypocaust system. The oyster shells found in close proximity may suggest the presence of a building of Romanised style. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410
The associated oyster shells are heavily abraded.
Height: 27.09mm, Width: 42.36mm, Thickness: 11.22mm, Weight: 14.3g.
Length: 53.79mm, Width: 43.60mm, Thickness: 7.18mm, Weight: 13.3g.
Length: 34.16mm, Width: 28.91mm, Thickness: 4.86mm, Weight: 4.8g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 3
Height: 27.09 mm
Width: 42.36 mm
Thickness: 11.22 mm
Weight: 14.3 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Hand made
Decoration style: Geometric
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: East Northamptonshire (District)
Parish or ward: Sudborough (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP9684
Four figure Latitude: 52.4455404
Four figure longitude: -0.58898057
1:25K map: SP9684
1:10K map: SP98SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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