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Unique ID: CPAT-B944C6
Object type certainty: Possibly
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Stone ball approximately 140mm in diameter and weighing around 5lbs (2268g). Pecked appearance, very odd stone, grey with lots of white flecking. Not a local stone. It is too heavy for compressed tarmac I think and too well compressed.
Found by a workman building a new prison on the site of a former munitions factory. It was apparently found about 1 metre deep in some very black soil below the more modern brick buildings. The same man also has 2 complete stones and 3 halves, one sounds like its made of iron because he describes casting flanges. (Steve Grenter, WCBC, March 2015).
Alternatively something associated with the former munitions factory on the site. NGR calculated by Mark Walters of CPAT based on information from Steve Grenter that the item came from near the centre of the site (Jeff Spencer, CPAT, September 2015).
Notes:
Item not seen by CPAT.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Quantity: 1
Weight: 2268 g
Diameter: 140 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 31st March 2015
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SMR reference number: CPAT PRN132416
Primary material: Stone
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SJ3749
Four figure Latitude: 53.03455171
Four figure longitude: -2.94093641
1:25K map: SJ3749
1:10K map: SJ34NE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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