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PIN
Unique ID: LEIC-6C86B7
Object type certainty: Probably
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Post medieval? lead alloy fitting, possibly a pin head, 28mm in length, 18mm diameter with a weight of 25.6grams. The object is spherical in form and has four oval shaped, semi-spherical panels with a solid raised border aorund their edges, covering it. At one end the object has a small counded collar with a possible further knop? but it has broken at this point. At the opposite end it has a rectangular cross sectioned shaft? which has four expanding projections with rounded terminals where it joins the main body. The object is probably a pin head
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 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 28 mm
Weight: 25.6 g
Diameter: 18 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Southery (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL6195
Four figure Latitude: 52.52907949
Four figure longitude: 0.3719665
1:25K map: TL6195
1:10K map: TL69NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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