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VESSEL
Unique ID: BERK-42EB25
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper-alloy repair patch (or folded 'paperclip' rivet) from a post medieval vessel. It has an uneven hexagonal outline, folded from a lozenge shaped sheet and was used to fill small splits in sheet vessels. The patch has an even dark green patina. Egan mentions a broad date range for this type of pot mend, dating from the Early Medieval to Post Medieval periods (Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition, page 101) but also suggests that a central period for the use of this type of rivet as dating from about the late 15th to the mid to late 16th Centuries.
Notes:
Finder's Ref: 021
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Finder applying for an export licence
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1450
Date to: Circa AD 1550
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 21.12 mm
Width: 12.53 mm
Thickness: 2.74 mm
Weight: 2.5 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 18th September 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 2013.561
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: Vale of White Horse (District)
Parish or ward: East Hendred (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU4589
Four figure Latitude: 51.59805371
Four figure longitude: -1.35172048
1:25K map: SU4589
1:10K map: SU48NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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