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VESSEL
Unique ID: NLM-2D4B76
Object type certainty: Probably
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy possible vessel fragmnent. Helen Geake kindly suggests this may be from the foot ring of a coptic bowl, citing Richards 1980 and Strzygowski 1904, though neither source provides an exact parallel. She further notes that the discovery of any further fragments of the same vessel would be most desirable.
Cast fragment from an openwork object with one straight edge. The pattern, now uncertain from this small fragment, was made up of strands of billeted or pelleted ornament juxtaposed with plainer bordered strips of similar size, with a single zone of diagonally hatched ornament. The interlacing of these elements is angular, as are the edges of those apertures that remain. The object is now bent but as this curvature encloses the ornamented side, this may either be fortuitous damage or incurred when the object was wrenched from its setting. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 500-700.
Length: 17.1mm, Width: 16.3mm, Thickness: 1.8mm, Weight: 1.70gms
Find of note status
This is a find of note and has been designated: County / local importance
Class: possibly Coptic Bowl
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 500
Date to: Circa AD 700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 17.1 mm
Width: 16.3 mm
Thickness: 1.8 mm
Weight: 1.7 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 8th November 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM24964a
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Interlace
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Crowle
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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