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WATCH
Unique ID: LANCUM-116C8B
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Small copper alloy advertising pocket watch key, inscribed with Wm. Routledge, Watchmaker & Jeweller, Brampton, dating from ca. 1834 to 1856.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MODERN
Period from: MODERN
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Exactly AD 1834
Date to: Circa AD 1856
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 25 mm
Width: 12 mm
Weight: 2 g
Diameter: 12 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 16th April 2012
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: North West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cumbria (County)
District: Carlisle (District)
To be known as: Kingwater
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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