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STUD
Unique ID: NARC-115D82
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Roman furniture stud: a copper alloy and iron box stud, dating to between the 1st and 3rd-centuries. The stud consists of an (incomplete) iron shank, and a decorative cast copper ally head. The head has a circular base and top, narrowing to a thin cylinder between them. It measures 12mm in diameter, and 20.5mm in height (head height), and weighs 7.90g.
Class:
Bell Shaped Stud
Sub class: Type 1
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 300
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 20.5 mm
Weight: 7.9 g
Diameter: 12 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: East Northamptonshire (District)
Parish or ward: Titchmarsh (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL0079
Four figure Latitude: 52.399888
Four figure longitude: -0.531643
1:25K map: TL0079
1:10K map: TL07NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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