File:Bronze Age, Architectural fragment (FindID 194781).jpg

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Bronze Age: Architectural fragment
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Teresa Gilmore, 2010-08-20 11:09:14
Title
Bronze Age: Architectural fragment
Description
English: A fragment of a fired clay object. The fragment exhibits voids from organic plant material, suggesting that it is a fragment of daub, used for constructing a wattle & daub structure.

The sherd is 9.54mm thick and weighs 7.6g. It is 23.52mm long and 34.39mm wide.

The sherd consists of a fragment, in a fabric is similar to to that published as GR2 (fine grog/clay pellet with some leached shell) in McSloy 2007, p 25, dated to the Bronze Age (c.2150 BC to c.800 BC) but without the fossil shell.

Sherd specific details:
Fabric type: Grog tempered
Sherd type: fragment
Wall thickness: 9.54mm
Firing condition: variable.
Hardness: Medium
Surface texture: smooth, soapy.
Condition of sherds: Slightly abraded.

Fragment was photographed.

Reference:
Hart, J. and Alexander, M. 2007 Prehistoric, Romano-British and Medieval Remains at Blenheim Farm, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire: Excavations in 2003. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Reports No. 5. Cotswold Archaeology. Cirencester.

McSloy, E.R. 2007 The Pottery pp24-34 in Hart and Alexander 2007
Depicted place (County of findspot) Warwickshire
Date between 2150 BC and 800 BC
Accession number
FindID: 194781
Old ref: WAW-6C8245
Filename: WAW-6C8245.jpg
Credit line
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/294004
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/294004/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/194781
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 14 November 2020)
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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