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SUNDIAL
Unique ID: NMS-3F48EA
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy pocket sundial or ring dial: bent and distorted flat-sectioned ring with median groove on outer face. One end broken across twin perforations for the missing suspension-loop, the other across the longitudinal slot. Inner face decorated with three bands of letters and numbers separated by two engraved longitudinal lines and within bordering lines, reading from left to right from break: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 / · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 1 2 / 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 (numbers bisected by engraved transverse lines all slightly oblique. Length (unbent) 87mm. Width 13mm. 1.5mm thick. Cf. Shoesmith (1978), 101-8 and Rogerson and Ashley (1987), 24, 26, fig.22, no.33. 17th-18th century.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 87 mm
Width: 13 mm
Thickness: 1.5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 20th May 2014 - Monday 16th June 2014
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 42552
Other reference: NMD062014
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: South Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Deopham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TM0498
Four figure Latitude: 52.54162395
Four figure longitude: 1.00684769
1:25K map: TM0498
1:10K map: TM09NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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