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KNIFE
Unique ID: LEIC-119010
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Medieval copper alloy knife fitting, 20mm long, 10mm wide and 9mm thick with a weight of 5.51grams. The object has a rectangular form and cross section and is undecorated. One edge has an oval centrally placed hole, which co-incides with a larger hole on the opposite edge, which sits within a recess that runs the width of the object. The object would have sat between a knife blade and a handle.
the object is very similar to LEIC-933794
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1100
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 20 mm
Width: 10 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight: 5.51 g
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Hinckley and Bosworth (District)
Parish or ward: Witherley (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP3298
Four figure Latitude: 52.57887811
Four figure longitude: -1.52920054
1:25K map: SP3298
1:10K map: SP39NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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