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VESSEL
Unique ID: WILT-D1F618
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A lead vessel repair surrounding a pot sherd fragment, dating to the period AD 43-1500. A broad date has been given due to the undiagnostic nature of this vessel repair, though from what can be seen of the pot sherd it does not appear to be Samian ware. The pot sherd is a light orange to salmon in colour, quite fine with no visible inclusions. It is surrounded entirely by the repair, which seems entirely disproportionate to the fragility of the vessel, and may be why the repair was not successful. The vessel repair is dished slightly, and it is likely that the pot sherd inside curves as the lead does. It is broadly rectangular in shape, measuring c.86mm in length, c.75mm wide, with a thickness of c.17mm, though this does vary as the vessel repair is irregularly shaped. The vessel wall is c.4.70mm thick. In total, this vessel repair weighs 335g.
Class: Repair
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 86 mm
Width: 75 mm
Weight: 330 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 5163
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Secondary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Alton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU1061
Four figure Latitude: 51.34799415
Four figure longitude: -1.85780212
1:25K map: SU1061
1:10K map: SU16SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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