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TOILET ARTICLE
Unique ID: LEIC-2C94B1
Object type certainty: Probably
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Early medieval copper alloy shaft, probably from a toilet implement, dating to around 450-700AD, Length: 38 mm, width: 6 mm, weight: 3.49 grams.
The object is largely rectangular in form and cross section and is incomplete with breaks at both short ends. It tapers in width towards a terminal which has an incomplete circular suspension loop emerging from what appears to be an animal head. This has a triangular cross section and widens at the end to accomodate the loop. It has two chevron shaped depressions suggesting a snout behind the loop, these run across a central ridge emerging from a flat rectangular area behind. The 'neck' is formed of a curved transverse depression with two incised lines at each side behind it (possibly this is a continuous collar and the object is worn?). From this point the object flattens and widens out and has a slight rectangular projection in the centre of the remaining shaft. The whole shaft has two rows of circular stamps forming a border.
The object has similar decoration to LEIC-2B1A6C a girdle hanger found close by and may be related?
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 450
Date to: Circa AD 750
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 38 mm
Width: 6 mm
Weight: 3.49 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 27th July 2017 - Thursday 27th July 2017
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Melton (District)
Parish or ward: Bottesford (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK8237
Four figure Latitude: 52.92416219
Four figure longitude: -0.78172536
1:25K map: SK8237
1:10K map: SK83NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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