File:Body sherd from the of a Roman mortarium (FindID 998761).jpg

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Body sherd from the of a Roman mortarium
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Edward Caswell, 2020-04-02 15:52:26
Title
Body sherd from the of a Roman mortarium
Description
English: A body sherd from the of a Roman mortarium.

The sherd is trapezoidal in plan and gently crescent shaped in profile with a convex outer surface and concave inner surface.

The sherd has a coarse  pink orange fabric which darkens to a brown grey near its outside surface. The fabric has frequent blackstone inclusions and occasional quartz inclusions. The exterior and interior surface are an orange white colour. The interior surface has grit emended into its surface to help with the grinding of material. This grit includes quartz, orange stone and brown stone inclusions all of which are c.1mm by 2.5mm in size. These are spread irregularly across the entire surface.

The sherd is 44.0mm long, 36.5mm wide, 10.3mm thick and weighs 19.52 grams.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Oxfordshire
Date between 43 and 402
Accession number
FindIdentifier: 998761
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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/1098829
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1098829/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/998761
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 13 November 2020)
Object location51° 49′ 57″ N, 1° 10′ 15.92″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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