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KEY (MUSIC)
Unique ID: LANCUM-0C7641
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Cast copper alloy key for the tuning of musical instruments, dating from the medieval period, that is the 14th or 15th century. The key is hammer-shaped, with moulded decoration and only slightly damaged at the bottom. It should have had an opening at the bottom, conical in shape which would have been used for the tuning of (possibly stringed) instruments, as similar finds in the National Music Museum suggest (http://orgs.usd.edu/nmm/News/Newsletter/December2010/ToolsArticle.html). The head is hammer-shaped with a (solic) conical side and a flat side. There are mouldings in the centre of the head and around the middle and bottom of the key.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 64.27 mm
Width: 29.99 mm
Weight: 18.05 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: Boston (District)
To be known as: Boston
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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