File:Bronze Age or Iron Age vessel body sherd (plan) (FindID 137992).jpg

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Bronze Age or Iron Age vessel body sherd (plan)
Photographer
Birmingham Museums Trust, Angie Bolton, 2006-07-26 19:06:34
Title
Bronze Age or Iron Age vessel body sherd (plan)
Description
English: A bodysherd of a handmade ceramic vessel.

The sherd is 11.61mm thick and weighs 24.1g. It is 40.01mm long and 57.87mm wide.

The sherd consists of a bodysherd, in a fabric is similar to that published as SH1 (Standard common fossil shell type) in McSloy 2006, p 38, dated to Middle to Late Iron Age (500 BC to 100 AD) but with occasional small annular metamorphic rock inclusions.

Sherd specific details:
Fabric type: frequent fossil shell, occasional metamorphic rock inclusions.
Sherd type: bodysherd
Wall thickness: 11.61mm
Firing condition: oxidised exterior, unoxidised core, oxidised interior.
Hardness: Hard
Surface texture: Smooth
Condition of sherds: Slightly abraded.

Sherd was photographed.

Reference:
Coleman, L., Hancocks, A., and Watts, M. 2006 Excavations on the Wormington to Tirley Pipeline, 2000. Four sites by the Carrant Brook and River Isbourne, Gloucestershire and Worchestershire. Cotswold Archaeology Monograph No. 3. Cirencester

McSloy, E.R. 2006 The Pottery pp37-57 in Coleman, Hancocks and Watts 2006

Depicted place (County of findspot) Warwickshire
Date between 500 BC and 100
Accession number
FindID: 137992
Old ref: WAW-7AB332
Filename: WAW-7AB332.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/109055
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/109055/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/137992
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Object location52° 03′ 23.04″ N, 1° 32′ 11.72″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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current19:25, 6 February 2017Thumbnail for version as of 19:25, 6 February 20171,203 × 750 (551 KB) (talk | contribs)Portable Antiquities Scheme, WAW, FindID: 137992, bronze age, page 5308, batch direction-asc count 75607