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LACE TAG
Unique ID: YORYM-6BEA93
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete copper alloy lace chape of medieval date. The chape is made from a single piece of rectangular sectioned copper alloy rolled to form a tapering tube with overlapping seam, open at the wider end and closed at the pointed end. The chape is undecorated and no attachment holes are present.
The metal has a light brownish-green patina and is worn. The chape is 97mm long, 10.3mm in diameter at the top tapering to 3.1mm at the base, 0.5mm thick and weighs 8.4g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 97 mm
Thickness: 0.5 mm
Weight: 8.4 g
Diameter: 10.3 mm
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Yorkshire (County)
District: Harrogate (District)
Parish or ward: Studley Roger (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE2969
Four figure Latitude: 54.11605868
Four figure longitude: -1.55785794
1:25K map: SE2969
1:10K map: SE26NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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