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VESSEL
Unique ID: SUSS-B31646
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete, lead, post medieval, jug or tankard handle, AD.1500-1800. The object comprises a curled tapering piece of lead which is triangular in cross section. The widest end of the piece forms the main attachment for the handle to the vessel. It is triangular and has a large central rivet, that has been distorted. The narrowest end if flat and would likely have been soldered on to the vessel. It has broken away and has coiled up on itself with the narrow end now tucked up behind the wide attachment end. The whole object has a grey-white patina.
Length: 53.8mm
Height: 49.3mm
Width: 22.94mm
Thickness: 11.98mm
Weight: 70g
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 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 53.8 mm
Height: 49.3 mm
Width: 22.94 mm
Thickness: 11.98 mm
Weight: 70 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: West Sussex (County)
District: Mid Sussex (District)
Parish or ward: Hassocks (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ3113
Four figure Latitude: 50.9016237
Four figure longitude: -0.13838997
1:25K map: TQ3113
1:10K map: TQ31SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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