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VESSEL
Unique ID: SUR-3B9652
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper alloy fitting, possibly a handle attachment for a copper alloy vessel. The object consists of a square-section 'skirted' fitting with a separate length of rod which appears incomplete and which is inserted into a cylindrical extension below the 'skirt'. The fitting itself has a circular pit on one side. Engraved radiating lines decorate the 'skirt' and there are crossing lines on either side of the square.
The function of this object is unclear but it may have held a handle from a vessel.
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: 38.39 mm
Weight: 9.4 g
Diameter: 12.15 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 11-1659
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Surrey (County)
District: Epsom and Ewell (District)
Parish or ward: Ewell (District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ2362
Four figure Latitude: 51.343785
Four figure longitude: -0.235399
1:25K map: TQ2362
1:10K map: TQ26SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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