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UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Unique ID: FAKL-B2A5D3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Loop of 3.1mm diameter copper alloy wire bent to form a U. Ends flattened, one damaged the other decorated with incised radial lines. Through each of the ends was a copper alloy rivet, the one that survives is 2.7mm diameter x 2.6mm long. This object cannot be identified with certainty, the short rivet suggest that it is not a loop from a buckle and it might be best seen as a loop handle from a small vessel.
Class: Handle?
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Post AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 26.7 mm
Width: 25.9 mm
Thickness: 3.1 mm
Weight: 3.65 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 209
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Cottingham
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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