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Bronze Age: Fired Clay object
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Teresa Gilmore, 2010-02-19 10:49:14
Title
Bronze Age: Fired Clay object
Description
English: A fragment of a handmade fired clay object of unidentifiable form. It could possibly be part of a fired clay loomweight. The fragment is 35.30mm in length, 23.86mm wide and 17.21mm thick. It weighs 11.1 grams. The fragment of fired clay has a fabric similar 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, frequent mica inclusions. Sherd type: fragment Wall thickness: n/a Firing condition: oxidised exterior, unoxidised core Hardness: hard Surface texture: Smooth, soapy Condition of sherds: Slightly abraded. Fragment 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
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FindID: 288716
Old ref: WMID-A9E577
Filename: WMID-A9E577.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/239655
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/239655/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/288716
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