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PENCIL
Unique ID: DEV-2B6957
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A possible lead pencil of Medieval to Post Medieval date. In plan the item is broadly triangular, tapering to a blunt point at one end. The object is square in section and has four faces. There is a grooved cross at the end of the object which may be for decoration or could possibly have been used as a stamp. There is a circular hole towards the wider end of the object, which was presumably for passing a string through for suspension. Just below the hole are deliberate wedge-shaped nicks at the corner of each adjoining face. The tapering end is damaged and bent to one side; this may be the reason the item was discarded, or possibly this event happened post-deposition.
Kevin Leahy suggests the term 'writing lead' and suggests a Medieval to Post Medieval date (pers comm November 2014). Compare IOW-AAFCB7, which also has an incuse cross on the top.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 52.71 mm
Width: 8.01 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 10th July 2006
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Devon (County)
District: East Devon (District)
Parish or ward: Uplyme (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SY3193
Four figure Latitude: 50.73249996
Four figure longitude: -2.97906632
1:25K map: SY3193
1:10K map: SY33SW
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.
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