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INCENSE BURNER
Unique ID: NMS-5B2204
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Cover of an incense burner in three fragments and partly distorted, approximately three-quarters surviving. The outer face is decorated with engraving, and the inner face is covered with by lathe-turning marks. There is a circular aperture in the centre of the top and there are three rows of circular smoke holes around the upper part of the sides, each hole drilled from the interior. The top is decorated with an eight-pointed star formed from lines on a ground of deep rocker-arm. On the sides below the smoke holes triangular fields of similar rocker-arm with apices pointing alternately upwards and downwards are framed by lines, and are separated by groups of three and four dashes. Diameter 80mm. Height 25mm. No parallel has been noted. Probably 15th or 16th century
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1599
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 25 mm
Diameter: 80 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 12th October 2009
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 25765
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
To be known as: Congham
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
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