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Description: | Roman earthenware pottery sherds x5. Total weight 83.89g.1. Greyware jar rim sherd; tall necked, simple beaded rim, reduced fired dark grey fine fabric; fine sands with numerous fine mica. Diameter of rim c.220mm, weight 25.83g. See sherd profile (1) photo.2. Derbyshire ware jar rim sherd, 2nd/3rd century. Dished, everted, lid-seated rim. Reduced-fired dark grey surfaces with orange core. Pimply "goose-flesh petrified" surfaces; hard fabric, hackly fracture; common quartz inclusions, sparse red clay? inclusions (2mm), sparse feldspar (1mm). Sherd too small to estimate diameter of rim. Weight 11.50g. See sherd profile (2) photo.3. Greyware rim sherd; everted lid-seated rim with groove below rim on the outer surface. Light grey, coarse fabric including common quartz sands and black iron rich inclusions. Diameter of rim c.300mm-340mm, weight 23.31g. This could be medieval rather than Roman. See sherd profile (3) photo.4. Body sherd from a small fine-walled colour-coated jar or beaker. Fine cream fabric with internal and external dark red-brown colour-coat, and regularly & closely spaced impressed triangles (rouletted?) on the outer surface. No visible inclusions. Thickness of wall 4.5mm, weight 1.36g.5. Greyware body sherd, probably from a large storage jar. Fine light-grey reduced-fired fabric; numerous mica inclusions, sparse black inclusions (
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