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TWEEZERS
Unique ID: NLM6189
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A piece of sheet metal, probably a detached terminal plate from a pair of medieval. The shape is rectangular with curved indentations at one edge. The face of the object is decorated with incised lines in a geometric (triangle) pattern.
It measures 24.9 by 24.3mm, and is 0.7mm thick. It weigh 2.35g.
See HAMP-DFCB47 on this database for a similar plate from tweezers of composite construction, and references therein.
Notes:
Checked following Sophie Catley. Drawing ref. added.
Class: page holder
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 1450
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 24.3 mm
Width: 24.9 mm
Thickness: 0.7 mm
Weight: 2.35 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM3585
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: North Kesteven (District)
To be known as: LINCOLNSHIRE SILK WILLOUGHBY
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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