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MOUNT
Unique ID: LEIC-F7EE96
Object type certainty: Probably
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status: Awaiting validation 
Copper-alloy incomplete probable mount, possibly of Roman date. It consists of a long, narrow strip of metal, slightly curved in profile, with a break at each end. The outer face is decorated with two pairs of parallel longitudinal grooves, each with small transverse grooves inbetween. Towards one end, slightly off-centre, is a small circular hole. The object may have functioned as a decorative furniture mount or similar. It has a bright green, smooth patina.
Length: 36.0mm, width: 16.0mm, thickness: 1.5mm, weight: 5.61g
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 36 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 1.5 mm
Weight: 5.61 g
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Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cambridgeshire (County)
District: South Cambridgeshire (District)
Parish or ward: Boxworth (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL3460
Four figure Latitude: 52.22191536
Four figure longitude: -0.03975232
1:25K map: TL3460
1:10K map: TL36SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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