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UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Unique ID: NLM-C925AB
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy unidentified object. A solid cylindrical object with four diagonally arranged longitudinal strips which extend from a flat end to an apparently hollow and splayed end. The appearance is of a fairly small calibre rifle bullet, possibly hollow-nosed, with its front end [as fired] disrupted and splayed by penetrating impact, though the material does not appear to include lead. If not a bullet, this object has still been involved with forces sufficient to cause catastrophic failure at one end, which should point to its having been subject to mechanical if not explosive forces. Suggested date: Post-Medieval to Modern, 1850-1950.
Length: 20.4mm, Diameter: 7.9mm, Weight: 8.85gms
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 1850
Date to: Circa AD 1950
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 20.4 mm
Weight: 8.85 g
Diameter: 7.9 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 23rd June 2018
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM39841
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Alkborough
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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