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VESSEL
Unique ID: HAMP-956345
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete integral cast copper alloy handle lug, which possibly dates to the 13th to 17th centuries. The rest of the vessel is missing. In plan the lug in broadly square with a bevelled upper face, the reverse is mostly flat with a raised outer edge. In the centre of the lug is an oval perforation which has a maximum internal diameter of 7.6mm. A section of the vessel remains attached to the lug, it is 20.0mm in length and 6.7mm wide, a small fragment remains which is 11.85mm in length and 8.15mm wide.
Notes:
Class: lug
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 2
Length: 18.2 mm
Width: 19.8 mm
Thickness: 6.65 mm
Weight: 7.05 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 10th September 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: E3276
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Basingstoke and Deane (District)
Parish or ward: St. Mary Bourne (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU4451
Four figure Latitude: 51.256473
Four figure longitude: -1.370864
1:25K map: SU4451
1:10K map: SU45SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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