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VESSEL
Unique ID: LEIC-B96215
Object type certainty: Probably
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Medieval copper alloy anthropormorphic Laver mount, 39mm long, 27 mm wide and thick and weighting 153grams. The object is rectangular in form and D shaped in cross section and has a circular depression in the centre of its reverse. It is decorated to represent a female head, with a lsightly raised triangular nose sitting between two large incised eyes and above an incised mouth. The hair is formed by wavy incised lines eminating from a central parting and brushed forward and rolled down each side of the face. The base of the object appears to be broken and forms the upper part of a neck.
Lavers are Late Medieval vessels used for washing associated with ecclesiatical and lay uses.
Class: laver
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1550
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 39 mm
Width: 27 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight: 153 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Rutland (Unitary Authority)
District: Rutland (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Oakham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK8507
Four figure Latitude: 52.65407702
Four figure longitude: -0.74489559
1:25K map: SK8507
1:10K map: SK80NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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