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VESSEL
Unique ID: HAMP-FEAB47
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A group of copper-alloy sheets rivetted together, possibly a repair to a medieval/post-medieval vessel. A thin fragmentary sheet is sandwiched between two other thin sheets; the three are held together by a rolled sheet rivet, suggesting that this might be a repair. The two outer sheets have angular ends where they survive. They are also slightly darker than the inner sheet suggesting that they are separate and of a slightly different alloy. The inner sheet has corroded to a mid-green colour with areas of light-green corrosion product. The corners of the sheets have been slightly bent in profile.
Class: repair
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 24.9 mm
Width: 21.9 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight: 5.16 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 30th October 2011
Rally details.
This object was found at Weekend Wanderers - Somerton 30/10 & 06/11 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: E3215
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: Cherwell (District)
Parish or ward: Somerton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP5128
Four figure Latitude: 51.948165
Four figure longitude: -1.259389
1:25K map: SP5128
1:10K map: SP52NW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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