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VESSEL
Unique ID: DOR-854DC0
Object type certainty: Certain
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Three sherds of unglazed earthernware pottery vessels. All have fine sand temper and are wheel made. Only slightly abraded.
[1] Two sherds have a grey reduced core with oxidised orange-buff margins. One is a cupped rim sherd with a slight internal bead on the interior edge forming a lid seat (from a jar). One is a body sherd, possibly from a straight-sided cup, decorated with groups of rilled lines around the girth.
[2] One sherd of oxidised orange-buff fabric. An angled rim sherd with a flat top and internal lid-seat ridge below.
Date: Medieval - c. 1300 - 1500
Total weight: 36 g
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 3
Weight: 36 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCMS 017535
Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Wheel made
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: West Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Chilcombe (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SY5290
Four figure Latitude: 50.70764319
Four figure longitude: -2.68114105
1:25K map: SY5290
1:10K map: SY50NW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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