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VESSEL
Unique ID: PUBLIC-5F1411
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A pedestal foot from a Roman ceramic vessel.
Description: The object is a circular pedestal foot from a small flask or beaker of Roman date. The outer base of the pedestal is concave. There are fragments of the body of the vessel which flare outwards from the pedestal with a flat base to the inside of the vessel. The walls of the vessel are 6.28mm thick. The outer surfaces of the vessel are a buff grey colour and the core of the vessel is a darker, reduced, grey colour. The fabric is fine-grained with frequent, well-sorted, very small rounded quartz inclusions only clearly visible under magnification. Lines around the vessel suggest that it was wheel-thrown.
Measurements: Diameter 60.18mm, height 22.89mm weight 53.44g
Discussion: This form of pedestal base appears amongst both Romano-British vessels, termed beakers, and also among native imitations of Roman vessel forms.
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 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 22.89 mm
Weight: 53.44 g
Diameter: 60.18 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 18th June 2016
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Wheel made
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Fulstow (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF3496
Four figure Latitude: 53.4437402
Four figure longitude: 0.01604987
1:25K map: TF3496
1:10K map: TF39NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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