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BELL
Unique ID: NLM-15E535
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy bell fragment. A shard from an open bell of estimated diameter 140mm with three moulded circumferential external ribs reinforcing the change of angle from an everted rim at the mouth to its wall. A roughened area appears externally adjacent to a jagged broken edge, possibly damage from the episode which fractured the object. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900.
Height: 56.6mm, Thickness (at mouth): 7.4mm, Weight: 173.34gms
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 1850
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 56.6 mm
Thickness: 7.4 mm
Weight: 173.34 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 22nd November 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM38102
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Amcotts
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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