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METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Unique ID: NLM-B0CB56
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy metal working debris. Four pellets, two larger [diameter 9.5mm and weight 2.13gms] and two smaller [c.5mm and weight 0.72gms], reported as part of a group of lead buckshot, which these are probably not. One object [of diameter 7.5mm and weight 2.40gms] has been hammered with at least four distinct facets. They may represent casting spillage, though the larger darker fragments resemble a species of small dark-tinted objects considered as possible base metal ingots, usually larger, at the size and pellet form of a guinea pig turd. These have occasionally been reported in Lincolnshire, though many more may have been disregarded. Suggested date: Unknown, 43-1800.
Weight: 5.80gms
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 4
Weight: 5.8 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 21st October 2016
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM34152
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: near Torksey
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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