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UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Unique ID: WILT-0A6960
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper-alloy probably Medieval (1100-1500) unidentified object, measuring 23.95x15.07x2.89mm and weighs 2.22g.
It has a circular body 15.07mm diameter and 1.97mm thick and is pierced by two opposing rivets, 1.5mm in diameter and 2.89mm high. Between them, at the centre, is a c.2mm wide hole now filled with corrosion. Flanking the edge (and passing 'through' the two rivets) is a very corroded ring of copper alloy. The plate, without rivets, is c.1.7mm thick.
To one edge is a zoomorphic projection with bulbous brow ridge and square snout, D-shaped in section. To the opposite side of the body is a shank also D-shaped in cross-section and apparently pierced, although it could also be the way it has broken.
The object has some similarities with 'disc-on-pin' brooches, an artefact type thought to be later Medieval in date (see Geake 2005, 346-348).
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1100
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 23.95 mm
Width: 15.07 mm
Thickness: 2.89 mm
Weight: 2.22 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 2012 - Wednesday 16th May 2012
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Wiltshire Heritage Museum Form No. 1455
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: All Cannings (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU0763
Four figure Latitude: 51.36602175
Four figure longitude: -1.90083866
1:25K map: SU0763
1:10K map: SU06SE
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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