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LAMP HANGER
Unique ID: NMS-BFB6A2
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete worn and corroded medieval copper alloy suspension unit or holder for lamp or censer, consisting of the remains of three horizontal arms, all with their original terminal missing, two broken across perforations, integral vertical arm for suspension with loop at apex. On the underside is a worn horizontally pierced lug. Height 30mm. Surviving width (between broken terminals of two arms) 28mm. Cf. examples from St Peter's church, Guestwick, Norfolk (Williams, V. in Rogerson et al. 1987, 73, fig.50, no.2), the Greyfriars, Norwich (Huddle, J. in Emery, P. A. 2007, 153, fig. 5.47) and London, one in a later 14th-century context (Egan 1998, 130-1, nos. 356-7).
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 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 30 mm
Width: 28 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 2nd July 2014 - Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 42590
Other reference: ENMD092014
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Broadland (District)
Parish or ward: Acle (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TG3809
Four figure Latitude: 52.62654335
Four figure longitude: 1.51517385
1:25K map: TG3809
1:10K map: TG30NE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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