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Unique ID: NMS-45CA53
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age copper alloy mount, incomplete and corroded consisting of D-sectioned bar with rounded, slightly domed terminals each countersunk on the reverse and pierced for a separate copper alloy rivets which project beyond the surface on both sides, one complete and one broken. A narrow, C-sectioned projection, one broken almost flush with the edge of the bar and one now curving upwards and tapering slightly to the break, spring from the centre of each long edge of the mount.
Width 25mm. Surviving length 21mm. Thickness (excluding rivets) 6mm. Length of rivet 12mm.
For very broadly similar mounts with rivets see NMS-69F7C2 (HER 56990) and LVPL-765235.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 100 BC
Date to: Circa AD 43
Quantity: 1
Length: 25 mm
Width: 21 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 26th March 2014 - Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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SMR reference number: 59739
Other reference: DDMD042014
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: TG0110
Four figure Latitude: 52.65047129
Four figure longitude: 0.96995502
1:25K map: TG0110
1:10K map: TG01SW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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