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Description: | A fragment of a glass strip handle from a vessel from the Roman period. The fragment is 21.4mm long, 20.5mm wide and 5.2mm thick. It has a mass of 2.9g. The fragment is slightly curved in profile. All of the edges except one are broken. There are a series of longitudinal sharp ribs on the front of the sherd . The sherd is light blue in colour. It is not opaque.
The fragment is similar to fragment recorded as SUR-6E7546 on the PAS database. A complete bottle and jug with both broadly similar strip handles are illustrated in figure 100 of, "Five thousand years of glass" (Tait (ed.), 1991, p.82). Both objects are from Faversham in Kent, the bottle is dated to the 1st or second century AD and the jug is probably from the third to fourth century AD. The fragment recorded here is from the Roman period (AD43-AD410), but without more of the vessel, a closer date is not suggested. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Slarke, Duncan - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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