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WARMING PAN
Unique ID: NLM-C6BA48
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
White metal glove warmer fragment. A lightweight hemispherical bowl with a pair of parallel oval section prongs projecting from its side [both broken], and with a round hollow in its base. The bowl retains fibrous charred material with a round hollow in its centre, probably a non-combustible material such as asbestos or impregnated fibre. A billet of smouldering charcoal would be placed in the hollow and the halves of a spherical container closed round it, to be kept in a pocket or a work glove. The warmer could retain heat for several hours, and would assist a worker or sportsman performing fiddly manual tasks in wintry weather. The lightweight material must indicate a recent date. Suggested date: Modern, 1950-2000.
Length: 66.7mm, Diameter: 29.7mm, Thickness (wall of bowl): 0.8mm, Weight: 10.67gms
Class: Hand warmer
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MODERN
Period from: MODERN
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1950
Date to: Circa AD 2000
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 66.7 mm
Thickness: 0.8 mm
Weight: 10.67 g
Diameter: 29.7 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 6th August 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM36792
Materials and construction
Primary material: White metal
Secondary material: Other
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Yorkshire (County)
District: Hambleton (District)
To be known as: Thormanby
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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