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VESSEL
Unique ID: LEIC-69FDA6
Object type certainty: Probably
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status: Awaiting validation 
Roman Samian ware base sherd, 58mm long, 51mm wide and 24mm thick with a weight of 26.9g.
The object consists of an open circular base which has a bowl form which is slightly wider than its base and turns abruptly upwards and tapers slightly. The inside of the bowl has a partial makers stamp which reads [.]ARVSSA.
The form is DR 33.
Robert Hopkins has privided the following info.
'Stamped by Carussa i of Lezoux, who was working c. AD 160-200. The die is 3a (Hartley & Dickinson, Names on Terra Sigillata, Vol 2, p.260); the illustration for this die comes from an example excavated at Lezoux. On Hartley's original card index for this die, is the comment that the dot's found between the letters do not always register, as is the case here, there should be a dot between the A and R, and in the V. The nearest example of a Dr 33 with this die is from Wakerley, Northants, and a cup of unidentified form from the Piddington villa, Northants
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Recorded remotely using finders images and weights
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 160
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 58 mm
Width: 51 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight: 26.9 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Melton (District)
Parish or ward: Kirby Bellars (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK7217
Four figure Latitude: 52.74583659
Four figure longitude: -0.93484752
1:25K map: SK7217
1:10K map: SK71NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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