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Roman Fineware Cup
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Kent County Council, Jane Clark, 2019-05-03 14:42:53
Title
Roman Fineware Cup
Description
English: An incomplete, wheel turned, fineware Roman cup.

Description: A large sherd incorporating the body, rim and base. The vessel has a flat base and carinated shoulder with a flaring rim. There is a stepped edge to the underside of the rim. The pot is burnished on external surfaces and the top of the rim and is decorated with a pair of girth grooves at the shoulder. The external surfaces are decorated with a with a silvery metallic coating or possible glaze.

The fabric is hard and fine, with a smooth fracture. There is a grey core with black margins and the fabric contains well sorted, clear quartz, with occasional grains of up to 1.0mm, and sparse silver mica. The breaks are fresh.

Measurements: Height: 48.04mm; Width: 68.84mm; Thickness: 5.8mm; Weight: 25.65g.

Depicted place (County of findspot) Medway
Date ROMAN
Accession number
FindIdentifier: 952183
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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/1055715
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1055715/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/952183
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Object location51° 27′ 52.2″ N, 0° 29′ 08.57″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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Attribution: Kent County Council
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current12:53, 1 December 2020Thumbnail for version as of 12:53, 1 December 20203,875 × 1,227 (691 KB) (talk | contribs)Portable Antiquities Scheme, KENT, FindID: 952183-1055715, roman, page 453, batch count 8599

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