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CANDLESTICK
Unique ID: PUBLIC-677590
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete and worn copper-alloy candlestick of Post-Medieval date. Only the socket survives, the remainder of the object is missing due to old breaks, now worn. The socket is cylindrical in shape measuring 24.13 mm in external diameter. It is decorated with three bands of moulding; a triple band at the top and in the middle, and a double band at the base. Below this it tapers to a projecting stub, with the underside decorated with a circular groove. This candlestick measures 46.13 mm in length, 2.94 mm in thickness at the socket mouth, 59.4 g in weight. Candlesticks of this type date to the late fifteenth to sixteenth centuries AD. There are parallels in Brownsword, 1985 (FRG Datasheet no. 1): nos. 9 and 11.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 46.13 mm
Thickness: 2.94 mm
Weight: 59.4 g
Diameter: 24.13 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 16th August 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Ashford (District)
To be known as: Stone cum ebony
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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