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Queries/Research(Pictures)  A Curious ceramic object

View from the side		A curious ceramic object from an excavation  just outside Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. The site is that of a heavily ploughed Romano-British settlement with a double ditched enclosure possibly containing a shrine of Late Romano-British date.     In the best archaeological tradition, however, this object was found in a medieval or later plough furrow!! On fabric grounds (hard, very fine-grained sandy with not much else), it's unlikely to be either prehistoric or medieval in date so Roman is currently our best guess and although we think that it probably had some "industrial" purpose, we'd be very interested to hear about any parallels and other suggestions of function and/or date.                                           Rachael Seager Smith                                           Deputy Finds Manager                                           Wessex Archaeology Ltd ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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