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SLAG
Unique ID: LANCUM-7D9197
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Iron Age to Post Medieval bloomery slag. It is weakly magnetic suggesting it still has a reasonably high iron content, suggestive of the more inefficient recovery rate of the Early Medieval and early Medieval. Bloomeries were used for the production of iron until the 1700s in the North West of England of some other areas, but by and large they were being superseded by the more efficient blast furnaces by the 1500s. Dates to between c800 and c1700 AD.
The length is 18mm, the width is 17mm, thickness 9mm, and the weight 6.02g.
Class:
Iron
Sub class: Bloomery
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 800
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 18 mm
Width: 17 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight: 6.02 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 5th December 2017 - Tuesday 5th December 2017
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Materials and construction
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: TF0524
Four figure Latitude: 52.80334507
Four figure longitude: -0.44391672
1:25K map: TF0524
1:10K map: TF02SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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