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MOUNT
Unique ID: NARC-2B0E41
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
An incomplete copper-alloy fitting. This object is of a type often mistaken for Iron Age or early Roman mounts. However, it is in fact a component of a modern (Victorian) ball-cock fitting from a toilet/cistern.
Notes:
Many thanks to those who have commented on this record and drawn our attention to the fact that it was initially mistakenly identified. The record has been kept on the database, rather than deleted, as a reference object.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MODERN
Period from: MODERN
Period to: MODERN
Date from: AD 1850
Date to: Exactly AD 1950
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 34 mm
Width: 17 mm
Thickness: 4.8 mm
Weight: 11 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 31st October 2003
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: Daventry (District)
Parish or ward: Norton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP6064
Four figure Latitude: 52.27089
Four figure longitude: -1.122129
1:25K map: SP6064
1:10K map: SP66SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
No references cited so far.
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2 comments
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Magicman wrote @ 21:23:59 on the 24th June 2011. Its not Iron Age nor Roman , but part of a toilet flush !
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Isaac Duffy wrote @ 15:48:22 on the 21st December 2011.
Magicman is right, it is part of I Victorian toilet flush, I found one and originally beleived it tobe Celtic, until my associates at the dunelme m.d.c. Corrected me.
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