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Roman: Ceramic Building Material Brick
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Peter Reavill, 2009-02-25 11:28:52
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Roman: Ceramic Building Material Brick
Description
English: Two bricks (ceramic building material formed into regular tablets) of probable Roman date (100-350 AD). The two bricks are of a similar size and shape; being sub-rectangular in both plan and cross section. They are formed from a relatively soft (powdery) mica rich fabric with significant quantities of angular and sub-angular grit, quartz, and grog (broken pottery) inclusions. The fabric is a uniform mid-orange colour. The surface of both bricks is relatively rough and pitted. There is no evidence of mortar or other similar compounds and this would suggest that they were either not used – or used in a way that they were not joined to other surfaces. This would also suggest that there is no evidence of a plaster surface and so they were not dressed / decorated.

The bricks measure: a) 96.9mm length, 68.3mm width, 29.5mm thick and weighs 266.53 grams. b) 97.5mm length, 71.4mm width, 27.6mm thick and weighs 256.73 grams

A comparison of these bricks has been made with material from the excavations of the mansio / bath house at Leintwardine which is stored at Ludlow Museum Resource Centre. These bricks are very similar in size, shape and fabric hence the proposed Roman date.
Depicted place (County of findspot) County of Herefordshire
Date between 100 and 350
Accession number
FindID: 193707
Old ref: HESH-EA0F18
Filename: HESH-EA0F18 b.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/203026
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/203026
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/193707
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