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VESSEL
Unique ID: KENT-F520B3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A heavily worn sherd of hand made Bronze Age ceramic vessel, possibly early Bronze Age food bowl.
Description: The sherd is a rim sherd and roughly triangular in plan. The fabric is soft has an oxidised surface (bright orange), unevenly oxidised core (mid grey-brown). The inclusions are a mix of irregularly sorted small-to large angular fire cracked flint. medium comnon mixed rounded flints and some common well sorted black sandy grit. Many inclusions have fallen out. The breaks are well rounded from water action and the rim is pinched leaving it thin and almost pointed
Measurements: 73.51mm long, 67.87mm high, 13.76mm thick and 56.28g in weight.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 2000 BC
Date to: Circa 1700 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 73.51 mm
Height: 67.87 mm
Thickness: 13.76 mm
Weight: 56.28 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Medway (Unitary Authority)
District: Medway (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Allhallows (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ8278
Four figure Latitude: 51.4716894
Four figure longitude: 0.61910948
1:25K map: TQ8278
1:10K map: TQ87NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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