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VESSEL
Unique ID: WILT-B61407
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper-alloy Post-medieval sheet rivet which would have been used to hold repairs to a vessel in place. The artefact is broadly rectangular in form. It have been folded in on themselves from the sides before being folded back, the folds protruding beyond the side.
Notes:
This record was made at a rally and may thus fall below our usual standards of recording
Class: Repair
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1625
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 19.5 mm
Width: 13.7 mm
Thickness: 3.6 mm
Weight: 2.4 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 18th September 2010 - Sunday 19th September 2010
Rally details.
This object was found at Urchfont 2010
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 68E
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Urchfont (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU0456
Four figure Latitude: 51.303108
Four figure longitude: -1.944007
1:25K map: SU0456
1:10K map: SU05NW
Grid reference source: Recorded at a rally
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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