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UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Unique ID: LIN-743335
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A wooden object, currently of unknown purpose or date. It has a flat bottom and a domed top (plano-convex), and has an hour-glass shaped hole carved through the centre. Concentric growth rings are seen around the hole extending to the side, indicating that the object was cut from the centre of a tree trunk. The object appears to have originally been circular in plan, but there is extensive wear to one side which now results in it being oval in plan. There are no markings visible on the surface.
The wood is saturated. Several shells can be seen burrowed into the wood.
Item is 22cm tall, 41cm wide, and 36cm deep. The opening of the hole at the top of the domed surface is 11cm in diameter, tapering to 7cm in diameter. The hole at the flat base measures 9cm in diameter.
The item was found lying on the surface of the beach at low tide, in the inter-tidal zone. It has been reported to the Reciever of Wreck 11/01/2018.
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 1950
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 36 mm
Height: 22 mm
Width: 41 mm
Diameter: 11 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 8th January 2018 - Monday 8th January 2018
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Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Theddlethorpe All Saints (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF4988
Four figure Latitude: 53.3678642
Four figure longitude: 0.23793604
1:25K map: TF4988
1:10K map: TF48NE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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