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Unique ID: MAS-D100229
Object type certainty: Probably
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Four pieces of hand-decorated tableware. There are two bowls of 75 mm diameter and 55 mm high. The other two pieces are two pearly white plates with 122 mm diameter. They probably belong to the cargo or tableware of the wreck SS Strathclyde that sank in 1876 thereofre can be dated to the end of the 19th century. Any stamps or markings on the base of the tableware would give more inidcation as to the location and date of manufacture.
Notes:
This items was found with three glass bottles (MAS-D100230), one stoneware bottle (MAS-D100231) and four stoneware ink bottles (MAS-D100232).
All of these items were recovered from the wreck of SS Strathclyde, a British trading steamship built in 1871 in Blackwood, Port Glasgow. The ship sank in 1876 off Dover whilst carrying 23 passengers and 47 crew for Bombay, following a collision with Franconia and resulting in the loss of 38 lives. NRHE and Kent HER reference numbers cited in this record refer to the wreck of SS Strathclyde.
Class:
Container
Sub class: Food preparation and consumption
Subsequent action after recording: Donated to a museum
Droit number: 291/18
Broad period: NINETEENTH CENTURY
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: NINETEENTH CENTURY
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: NINETEENTH CENTURY
Date from: Circa AD 1870
Date to: Circa AD 1786
Quantity: 4
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 17th September 2018
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Recorded by: Mr Robbie Trevelyan
NRHE monument number: 813607
Other reference: Kent HER: TR 33 NW 23
Droit ID: 291/18
Primary material: Ceramic
Decoration style: Floral
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: TR3438
Four figure Latitude: 51.09353995
Four figure longitude: 1.34042371
1:25K map: TR3438
1:10K map: TR33NW
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