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UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Unique ID: BERK-34A033
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Unidentified object of probably Early-Medieval or Medieval date. The object is cyclindrical, curved and tapers to one end. In the wider end there is a circular hole and the other end is broken. The shaft is decoration, perhaps zoomorphic in design (possibly a fish or dragon). The middle of the shaft is decorated with a raised crest with wavy lines on the top. On either side of this crest is an eye of a single ring and dot. The mouth is represented by two V-shaped ridges which look to be swallowing the wider end of the object.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 600
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 41.4 mm
Width: 11.1 mm
Thickness: 11.8 mm
Weight: 23.36 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 23rd May 2021
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: South Oxfordshire (District)
To be known as: Bix CP
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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