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THIMBLE
Unique ID: KENT-F0560B
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An uncertain tear-drop shaped lead-alloy object likely post medieval c. AD 1500-1800 palm guard.
Description: The object is tear drop shape in plan, both faces are flat, the sides slant by approx. 10mm from face to face. The object has some minor damage with a nick in one edge a third of the way up. On the narrower face there are the remnants two circular posts, of unknown purpose. The broader face has some slight indentations on the wider part.
Measurements: length: 60.96mm, width: 35.96mm, thickness: 12.23mm, weight: 147.58g.
Class: Palm guard
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 60.96 mm
Width: 35.96 mm
Thickness: 12.23 mm
Weight: 147.58 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Dover (District)
Parish or ward: Denton with Wootton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TR2146
Four figure Latitude: 51.17052014
Four figure longitude: 1.15998154
1:25K map: TR2146
1:10K map: TR24NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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