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VESSEL
Unique ID: SUR-7C58B8
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A worn rim sherd of a wheel thrown sand tempered pottery vessel made from a pale grey fabric with abundant small and well sorted dark grey granular inclusions (<0.25mm) along with infrequent poorly sorted rounded to angular pale grey quartz and flint inclusions up to 3mm across. Most likely Roman Oxfordshire parchment or white ware. The original diameter of the rim may have been around 30cm.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 200
Date to: Circa AD 400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 34.4 mm
Height: 27.6 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight: 13.56 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 7th March 2019
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Wheel made
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: South Oxfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: Watlington (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU6993
Four figure Latitude: 51.63158966
Four figure longitude: -1.00448728
1:25K map: SU6993
1:10K map: SU69SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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