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MORTARIUM
Unique ID: NLM-110299
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Pottery. Swanpool Mortarium (MOSP), with black grits on its inner surface, with a grey-brown reduced fabric with orange oxidised margins and with a white slip inside and out; rim sherd with projecting flange from a mortarium of estimated rim diameter 260mm. This sherd was kindly identified by Wallace Collyer and Sandra Firth of the North Lincolnshire Pottery Research Group. Suggested date: Late Roman, 275-400.
Weight: 58.99gms
Class: Swanpool Mortarium (MOSP)
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Acquired by a museum - not a Treasure case
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 275
Date to: Circa AD 400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 58.99 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM38850
Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Wheel made
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: South Ferriby
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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