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FURNITURE FITTING
Unique ID: NLM-F83A73
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy furniture fitting. Gary Crace kindly comments as follows: 'This is a furniture fitting for a drop handle. The pierced globular head took the end of the drop handle and the threaded shaft passed through the furniture carcase to be secured on the inside using the thread. c 18/19th.'
A cast pin with a collared ball head with a drilled aperture of diameter 4.8mm, which is carried through as a small [diameter 2mm] hole, perhaps inadvertently, and with a screw-threaded shank. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1750-1850.
Length: 32.9mm, Diameter: 8.2mm, Weight: 2.59gms.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1750
Date to: Circa AD 1850
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 32.9 mm
Weight: 2.59 g
Diameter: 8.2 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 22nd March 2016
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM32156
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Corringham
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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