Rights Holder: Surrey County Council
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Unique ID: SUR-E5D760
Object type certainty: Certain
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A cast copper alloy fragment of a candlestick of late medieval or Tudor date. The cylindrical shaft flares into a narrow collar which would have been inserted into a saucer-like base, and the shaft has two girth grooves. The object appears to have been broken and deliberately crushed as scrap.
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: AD 1600
Quantity: 1
Length: 17.8 mm
Thickness: 14.9 mm
Weight: 6.16 g
Diameter: 15.53 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st January 2008
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Other reference: 08.1107
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
4 Figure: SP8842
Four figure Latitude: 52.069389
Four figure longitude: -0.717585
1:25K map: SP8842
1:10K map: SP84SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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