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FURNITURE FITTING
Unique ID: IOW-9FDBE3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A post-Medieval cast copper-alloy drawer handle pull (1700-1800).
This object is moulded at the front, semi-circular at one end and bifurcated at the opposite end. At the semi-circular end there is a central integral rivet below which there is a wide horizontal groove.
This object is smooth and reddish brown with off-white material around the rivet.
Height: 29.4mm; width: 30.1mm; thickness: 3.8mm. Weight: 6.90g.
Notes:
It is possible that the object could be an eighteenth century tankard thumb-rest (pers.comm. Robert Webley, Somerset FLO, 19/5/2014).
Class: Draw handle pull
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1700
Date to: Exactly AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 29.4 mm
Width: 30.1 mm
Thickness: 3.8 mm
Weight: 6.9 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 14th May 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: IOW2014-4-102
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Uncertain
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
District: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Isle of Wight
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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