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VESSEL
Unique ID: SOM-55A401
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Two Roman ceramic vessel body sherds, potentially from the same vessel although the two do not fit. From an uncertain vessel form, probably a storage vessel, dating to c. AD 43-410. Both sherds of an identical fabric; a grey ware with grey-brown surfaces and core and red-brown margins, with an anbundant fine-grained sand temper of fine grained unidentified black grit and sub-rounded quartz, as well as common micaeous inclusions and iron stone, <0.5mm. Both sherds represent the attachment point of one end of a handle, these were probably applied with the join smoothed and pressure applied to the internal surface resulting in a slight "dimple". Both sherds appear to have been wiped or burnished. Weight: 64.46g.
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
Weight: 64.46 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: 19094
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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