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There are 11 objects for which Shape_description contains → pieces
22.3.12 Fragment; two joining pieces
22.3.18 Fragment; two pieces joined.
22.9.5 Sphere with base and one side handle still present. Only half intact with one side handle. Other handle and some other pieces with it but just fragments. Base of cup badly chipped. Underside of cup's base is inverted.
34.10.10 Gill's 'Pheidias shape'. Wide mouth with a flat rim. The handle is in two pieces branching out sideways along the rim at the top. Base is flat.
35.5.27-29 Fragments, 1 consisting of seven pieces joined, 2 of two, 3 of three, probably all from one cup.
45.6.5 Single ribbon handle with projecting side pieces. The upper part of body rises sharply at rim.
E.23.40.1-4 Three pieces unattached but found together. The panels are very thin and the ring does not meet beneath them but is attached either side.
E.23.45 Small tweezers with a loop on one end, originally loose in the hinge for hanging. Tweezers are made from three pieces, a central straight but shorter section and two longer but curved inwards sections which would have been the pieces that would have bent together to hold the hair or splinter.
E.62.40 Three pieces. Lid is circular and flat with a central knob handle, also circular. Second piece is the ring which sits between lid and base and is circular with a central hole cut out and a rim on the underside so it sits in the base. Base is wide at shoulder and tapers to the bottom with smooth walls. At top is a slighlty raised rim to receive ring. Inside is a hollowed out cylinder, not to the contours of the outer wall.
E.62.9 Rectangular in shape with a wide back tapering to teeth. Teeth are short and narrow and there are 22 plus two larger side pieces, one either end.
REDMG:1964.1627.1 Two pieces which can be joined.
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