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KNIFE
Unique ID: SF125
Object type certainty: Possibly
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status: Published 
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Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: AD 43
Date to: AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st July 1999
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Suffolk Coastal (District)
To be known as: SUFFOLK ALDERTON
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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