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INGOT
Unique ID: NLM-EBA802
Object type certainty: Probably
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status: Awaiting validation 
Gold ingot fragment. Cast straight-sided bar. One side is slightly convex, with an off-centre ridge which ends on the curved edge of a chamfered end. The finder kindly supplies a laboratory surface analysis, which finds 93% gold, 2% copper, 1% silicon and 4% silver. This relative purity might support an early date. However, an original suggestion by the finder that this may be from an artefact such as a simple pendant cross fails to find support from any closely related parallels. Barry Ager kindly comments that the form of the object is undiagnostic, and that it is therefore unsuitable for reporting under the Treasure Act. Suggested date: Unknown, 600-1850.
Length: 13.2mm, Width: 7.3mm, Thickness: 1.6mm, Weight: 1.26gms.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 600
Date to: Circa AD 1850
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 13.2 mm
Width: 7.3 mm
Thickness: 1.6 mm
Weight: 1.26 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 27th July 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM26126a
Materials and construction
Primary material: Gold
Manufacture method: Cast
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: Roxby cum Risby
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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