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BRUSH
Unique ID: HAMP-ACBE1F
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A wooden brush, 185mm in length and 41mm wide, hand-carved from a single piece of wood. The brush has an integral handle with rounded cross section and a head which has a plano-convex cross section and rounded end. There are 21 circular openings which are drilled across the head to take bunches of bristles. These are now mostly lost although some fragments remain in situ. There are six larger holes in two rows staggered along the central part of the brush with 15 smaller holes around the outside, which because of the curve of the head, extended the bristles around the sides as well as the underside of the head ot he brush.
A locally made item, probably of early 19th century date.
Notes:
A beach find, eroded out from an area of saline, waterlogged and anaerobic salt marsh sediments. This environmental context accounts for the unusual preservation.
Recorded from details emailed by the finder.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 185 mm
Width: 41 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight: 29 g
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Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: New Forest (District)
Parish or ward: Boldre (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SZ3695
Four figure Latitude: 50.75348832
Four figure longitude: -1.49103593
1:25K map: SZ3695
1:10K map: SZ35SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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