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MOUNT
Unique ID: WILT-1CF447
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment of a copper-alloy hooked mount of Post-medieval date. The mount is incomplete, a break is visible at the top. The main surviving section has an expanded centre which has a circular perforation before tapering to a broadly rectangular expansion which is incomplete at the tip, which suggests that it may have been a hook.
Notes:
This record was made at a rally and may thus fall below our usual standards of recording
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 21.9 mm
Thickness: 1.85 mm
Weight: 1.12 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 18th September 2010 - Sunday 19th September 2010
Rally details.
This object was found at Urchfont 2010
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 18
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Urchfont (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU0457
Four figure Latitude: 51.3121
Four figure longitude: -1.943996
1:25K map: SU0457
1:10K map: SU05NW
Grid reference source: Recorded at a rally
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
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