Rights Holder: North Lincolnshire Museum
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Unique ID: NLM-7C6EA5
Object type certainty: Possibly
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status: Awaiting validation
Lead possible curse tablet. A rectangle of cast sheet of thickness 1.3mm tightly folded and then rolled into a tapering cylinder. The object is so tightly rolled and compressed as to forbid a use as a weight for a line running through its middle, though a cut on one side might have provided a tying groove. Patinated overall. The light gauge of the sheet and its neat compression differentiate this object from net weights of comparable form. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410.
Length: 34.6mm, Width: 11.5mm, Thickness (overall): 8.1mm, Weight: 13.33gms.
Notes:
This is the second possible curse tablet to be reported from the vicinity, and two Roman coin hoards of probably 2nd-century date have also been found nearby; circumstances which may hint at the proximity of a shrine.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 410
Quantity: 1
Length: 34.6 mm
Width: 11.5 mm
Thickness: 8.1 mm
Weight: 13.33 g
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st April 2014
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Other reference: NLM25198a
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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