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MOUNT
Unique ID: ESS-1BD071
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete Roman copper alloy bird shaped mount. The object is in the shape of a board, though which species is difficult to determine. It is likely to be a duck or some other waterfowl, as these were common in the Iron Age and Roman period. There are two projections at the base of the object which appear to have once formed a ring. This suggests it may have been a finger ring or ring fitting.
Similar examples have been recorded on the PAS database, cf. LIN-3AEB83.
Dimensions: height: 19.96 mm; length: 20.06 mm; width: 16.03 mm; weight: 10.55g.
Notes:
FInd seen at Southend Finds roadshow 2015
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa 100 BC
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 20.06 mm
Height: 19.96 mm
Width: 16.03 mm
Weight: 10.55 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Zoomorphic
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Maulden (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL0536
Four figure Latitude: 52.01250581
Four figure longitude: -0.47150054
1:25K map: TL0536
1:10K map: TL03NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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