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AMMUNITION
Unique ID: SUR-4C80E2
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An inscribed 231mm length of copper alloy strip with closely-spaced transverse ridges. The object has been identified by Andy Robertshaw of the Royal Logistics Corps Museum as being a cast copper driving band from an artillery shell. One side of the band is inscribed E.J.C. JAMES 179203 M.T.A.S.C.C. (Motor Transport Army Service Corps).
The driving band appears to have been stamped to form a souvenir. One can perhaps surmise that the shell may have been German and that it exploded close to Pte James and that he recovered this fragment. It is known that James served abroad from 1915 and survived the First World War but records of the Army Service Corps are not complete making it less easy to trace this man further.
How the object arrived at its findspot is quite unknown.
Find of note status
This is a find of note and has been designated: County / local importance
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MODERN
Period from: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1915
Date to: Circa AD 1918
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 231 mm
Width: 8.33 mm
Thickness: 3.46 mm
Weight: 50 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 13-1132
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Surrey (County)
District: Mole Valley (District)
Parish or ward: Box Hill and Headley (District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ1751
Four figure Latitude: 51.24618312
Four figure longitude: -0.32510574
1:25K map: TQ1751
1:10K map: TQ15SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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