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METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Unique ID: NLM-FF8F46
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Lead
Metal Working Debris. Six fragments of lead melt, including a plano-convex fragment with a square hole produced by having melted around a nail shank (now lost), and another with a ragged aperture. Suggested date: Unknown, 40-1800.
Combined Weight: 48.85gms.
Class: Lead
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 40
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 6
Weight: 48.85 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 16th November 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM19386
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Somerby (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TA0506
Four figure Latitude: 53.54015848
Four figure longitude: -0.41702674
1:25K map: TA0506
1:10K map: TA00NE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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