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UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Unique ID: SUSS-25ED27
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An unidentified fragment of a cast copper alloy object, possibly a Post Medieval-early Modern scabbard piece, such as a chape. The object consists of a sub-triangular flat plate, which has a sub-oval end with the remains of what looks like a rivet; the rivet end might have held another plate onto the reverse side of the intact plate, in order to hold another element. It seems likely that this object is composed of copper alloy, with an iron rivet; however, there is significant iron corrosion and staining on all surfaces of the object, suggesting that the item held within it was made of iron. This may help to support the idea that this object functioned as part of a scabbard or chape-end. The object measures 44.6 mm long, 15 mm maximum width; 8.2 mm wide and 6.6 mm thick at rivet-end; it weighs 5.94 grams.
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Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 44.6 mm
Width: 15 mm
Weight: 5.94 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 17th May 2012
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Sussex (County)
District: Rother (District)
Parish or ward: Westfield (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ8214
Four figure Latitude: 50.896799
Four figure longitude: 0.586712
1:25K map: TQ8214
1:10K map: TQ81SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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