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BRACELET
Unique ID: LIN-1ECC64
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Terminal from a Roman copper-alloy snake bracelet. The terminal is flat and in the form of a snake's head as seen from above. The details of the head are too worn to distinguish apart from a groove along either the side of the head. The neck or hoop proper is rectangular in cross-section.
Class: Snake
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 33 mm
Width: 11 mm
Thickness: 1 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 28th August 2011
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Bullington
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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