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UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Unique ID: WILT-4F42B3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy fragment of an unidentifiable object of an uncertain date. The object is incomplete and has been deliberately broken. The surviving section has been folded in upon itself with two incomplete adjoinging perforations located at the break and the folded edge. The lower section terminated in a bevelled edge. The upper edge is incomplete with a rough edge, at the fold this section is smooth suggesting a deliberate cut before the remainder of the object was broken off.
No decoration is visible on the smooth outer face, internally the object where visble is undecorated and the patina is rough.
Overall, the maximum length of the object is 24.68mm, the maximum width is 21.65mm, the maximum thickness is 10.80mm, and the minimum thickness I 9.66mm. The fragment weighs 22.01g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa 1500 BC
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 24.68 mm
Width: 21.65 mm
Thickness: 10.8 mm
Weight: 21.01 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 5030
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: New Forest (District)
Parish or ward: Breamore (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU1520
Four figure Latitude: 50.97921639
Four figure longitude: -1.78770725
1:25K map: SU1520
1:10K map: SU12SE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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