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RIVET
Unique ID: DOR-528C44
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A probable copper-alloy sheet metal rivet, of the type usually used for repairing metal vessels. The rivet is formed from a kite shaped piece of sheet metal, rolled into a cone. The top of these rivets is often top folded over to form the head, but this has not been done in this case. The tip of the cone is open. The rivet has not been fully formed and is probably unused.
Date: Post Medieval - c. 1500 - 1800
Dimensions: 28.15 mm x 8.05 mm x 6.66 mm
Weight: 1.68 g
A discussion of these rivets can be found in Egan, G 2005, Material Culture in London in an Age Of Transition: Tudor and Stuart period finds c.1450 - c.1700 from excavations at riverside sites in Southwark, London, p.101. Egan suggests that these were a later form a rivet, which took over from the Medieval folded staples in the late 15th to the mid to late 16th century and continued in use into the 18th century (ibid.).
Class: Sheet metal
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 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 28.15 mm
Width: 8.05 mm
Thickness: 6.66 mm
Weight: 1.68 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCMS 019036
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: North Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Tarrant Rushton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST9305
Four figure Latitude: 50.84447944
Four figure longitude: -2.10079211
1:25K map: ST9305
1:10K map: ST90NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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