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LAMP HANGER
Unique ID: LANCUM-6D0215
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Medieval copper alloy lamp hanger. The hanger has three arms, to suspend chains for the lamp, projecting from a central upright shank with loop at the top. This loop measures 9mm by 12mm and the perforation 2mm by 3mm. The shank diameter is 5mm. All three of the arms are incomplete and missing their perforated ends. Immediately below the junction of the shank and the arms is a rib with a small perforation (2x1mm) for another suspended element. Dates to between c1200 and c1500 AD. A similar example from medieval London is recorded in Egan (1998:131) number 357 and is dated to the fourteenth century AD.
The length is 30mm, the width is 25mm, thickness 23mm, and the weight 9.38g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30 mm
Width: 25 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight: 9.38 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 5th December 2017 - Tuesday 5th December 2017
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Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: South Kesteven (District)
Parish or ward: Edenham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF0522
Four figure Latitude: 52.78537275
Four figure longitude: -0.44455797
1:25K map: TF0522
1:10K map: TF02SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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