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FERRULE
Unique ID: NLM-6A8ED4
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy ferrule. Conical sheet metal tube, open at both ends and with a pair of opposed drilled holes of diameter 4.7mm towards its narrower end; the tube is indented around these holes. The ferrule is lightly crimped at its narrow end, around a hole of diameter c.7mm, which indicates the minimum diameter of the end of the object to which it was attached. Possibly from a whip stock or similar rod. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1900.
Length: 42.5mm, Diameter: 14mm, Thickness: 0.7mm, Weight: 5.28gms.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 42.5 mm
Thickness: 0.7 mm
Weight: 5.28 g
Diameter: 14 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 19th September 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM23564a
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Northorpe (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK8995
Four figure Latitude: 53.44426417
Four figure longitude: -0.66150266
1:25K map: SK8995
1:10K map: SK89NE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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