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NARC-08D701: Vessel plug, NARC-08D701

Rights Holder: Northamptonshire County Council
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VESSEL

Unique ID: NARC-08D701

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation

Lead potmender, Roman - post-medieval date. Unusually, this object contains an iton component. Potmenders were produced from whatever appropriate material was to hand, so this should perhaps not be surprising.

Class: pot mend

Chronology

Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 1800

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Weight: 25 g
Diameter: 13 mm

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Lead

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Spatial metadata

Region: East Midlands (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: Daventry (District)
Parish or ward: Norton (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SP6163
Four figure Latitude: 52.261791
Four figure longitude: -1.107656
1:25K map: SP6163
1:10K map: SP66SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

No references cited so far.

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Audit data

Recording Institution: NARC
Created: 15 years ago
Updated: 5 years ago

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