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AMMUNITION
Unique ID: NLM-FCD9C8
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy ammunition fragment. Curved fragment of shell splinter, possibly from the driving band of a heavy anti-aircraft shell. The surface retains an untarnished metallic hue and fine circumferential grooves along its outer edge. Suggested date: Modern, 1939-1945. There were anti-aircraft batteries nearby which served as part of the air defences of the Humber ports. Suggested date: Modern, 1939-1945.
Diameter: 80mm, Width: 9.7mm, Thickness: 4.9mm, Weight: 13.85gms.
Class: anti-aircraft
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MODERN
Period from: MODERN
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1939
Date to: Circa AD 1945
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Width: 9.7 mm
Thickness: 4.9 mm
Weight: 13.85 g
Diameter: 80 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 21st March 2015
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM28401
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Roxby cum Risby (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE9114
Four figure Latitude: 53.61465305
Four figure longitude: -0.62588526
1:25K map: SE9114
1:10K map: SE91SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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