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VESSEL
Unique ID: LEIC-B129E3
Object type certainty: Probably
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Iron age copper alloy escutcheon plate, probably from a cauldron? Length 50mm, width 31mm thickness 1.5mm, weight 42.31grams.
The object would have been used to secure a handle to a vessel, proabblay a cauldron. It is rectangular in form and D shaped in cross -section. It has a central curved section, 22mm deep, which has a raised lip, 5mm high, rising up at each edge and a rounded, raised 'ridge' running down its centre. The object then flattens out at each end, forming a rectangular plate with a central, circular hole, used to attach the object, and the handle, to a vessel.
similar artefacts made up a hoard from Wales NMGW-9C0216
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa 800 BC
Date to: Circa AD 42
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 50 mm
Width: 31 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight: 42.31 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: TL3462
Four figure Latitude: 52.2398855
Four figure longitude: -0.03896047
1:25K map: TL3462
1:10K map: TL36SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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