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MANUFACTURING DEBRIS
Unique ID: LON-CEBBB1
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A Post Medieval pinner's bone (15-16th century). This tool is made from a cow or horse metapodial roughly trimmed at one end to a sub-rectangular shape (presumably for ease of holding rigid), and more finely trimmed to a rectangular shape at the other. At this end there are a series of grooves longitudinally, 2 per facet, on which pin shafts are thought to have ben rested while they were being filed sharp. These are relatively common finds from 16th century deposits in London, notably on the sites of former religious houses following the Dissolution (Egan 2005:138).
Dimensions: length:178mm; width: 37.21mm; thickness: 23.59mm; weight: 169.66g.
Reference: Egan, G. 2005. Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition. MoLAS Monograph 19. English Heritage: London.
See also LON-FAB471 on PAS database
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 178 mm
Width: 37.21 mm
Thickness: 23.59 mm
Weight: 169.66 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Animal skeletal material
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: London (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Greater London Authority (Greater London Authority)
District: City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish or ward: St. James's (London Borough Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ3079
Four figure Latitude: 51.49500418
Four figure longitude: -0.12872211
1:25K map: TQ3079
1:10K map: TQ37NW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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