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UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Unique ID: HAMP-AF67C6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment from an unidentified cast copper-alloy artefact of possibly Roman date. What survives is a globular terminal, from which a main plate emerges, expanding away from the terminal to an old, ragged break. This now trapezoidal plate is curved in profile and curves down to the centre/base of the globular terminal. The front-facing part of the terminal has a field defined by a penannular groove and a transverse groove at the level of the base of the plate. The field is decorated with fairly finely engraved cross hatching. The upper surface of the plate features an engraved linear border within which are two triangular fields either side of a central longitudinal ridge. These fields narrow towards the centre of the terminal; one of them contains what appear to be traces of enamel, now yellow/green in colour. The fragment has a fairly even variable mid-brown patina with lighter corrosion particularly affecting the lower surface. The enamelling suggests a Roman date, although the cross-hatching is characteristically medieval. There are no means of attachment apparent on the object; it may have been soldered to something on its lower surface.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: Circa AD 300
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 20.65 mm
Width: 15.1 mm
Thickness: 3.65 mm
Weight: 5.22 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st January 1986 - Wednesday 31st December 1986
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: E2892
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Basingstoke and Deane (District)
Parish or ward: Hurstbourne Priors (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU4346
Four figure Latitude: 51.211593
Four figure longitude: -1.385792
1:25K map: SU4346
1:10K map: SU44NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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