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AMPULLA
Unique ID: GLO-B7A4E8
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Lead ampulla that has a circular chamber that would have had a long rectangular neck protruding from the top but this is now truncated. The circular chamber is decorated on one side with horizontal lines that have an outwards curving base to form a scallop shell motif. While on the other side has a raised circular border the bottom edge of which is overlaid by an inverted V or pyramid with two pellets above the point. The outside edge of the circle is decorated with series of alternating lines and triangles that radiate outwards, this this decoration may carry round to the left side but this area is obscured.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1350
Date to: Circa AD 1550
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 32 mm
Width: 32 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 23.87 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st July 2016 - Saturday 2nd June 2018
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Ludlow (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO5479
Four figure Latitude: 52.40706079
Four figure longitude: -2.67762073
1:25K map: SO5479
1:10K map: SO57NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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