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WEIGHT
Unique ID: LEIC-F74486
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
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Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 48 mm
Diameter: 40 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Secondary material: Iron
Completeness: Complete
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: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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