Rights Holder: Oxfordshire County Council
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Unique ID: BERK-170986
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy thumb screw, possibly from a watch winder, nutcracker or even a musical instrument. The screw has a sub-circular dished head with small knop at the apex, a skirted collar beneath which separates the turning head from the shaft; only a fragment of the screw thread survives. Similar objects are recorded as the screw heads for open-box nutcrackers; although no watch-winder exactly like this example has been found, it is possibly this may have also been the objects original purpose. 17th to 18th century AD.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1850
Quantity: 1
Length: 37.22 mm
Width: 15.6 mm
Thickness: 6.08 mm
Weight: 5.8 g
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st February 2012 - Wednesday 29th February 2012
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Other reference: 2011.815
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: SU2766
Four figure Latitude: 51.392401
Four figure longitude: -1.613334
1:25K map: SU2766
1:10K map: SU26NE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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