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MOUNT
Unique ID: HAMP-D86DE6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper-alloy probably Medieval mount. The mount is broadly U shaped in plan and has a circular cross section with a D shaped cross section at both tips, one is incomplete. The artefact widens towards each tip which terminates in a D shaped projection with a circular perforation, the second tip in incomplete, an old break is visible adjacent to the perforation.
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Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 31.35 mm
Width: 24.45 mm
Thickness: 3.3 mm
Weight: 3.43 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: Incomplete
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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