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JEWS HARP
Unique ID: NMS-DFB5C8
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Just over half of a distorted and abraded post-medieval copper alloy jew's harp with traces of a rabbet for a missing iron tongue. Length c.45mm, thickness 3.5mm. Not closely datable, but 16th cent. or later.
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 1540
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 45 mm
Thickness: 3.5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 26th April 2018 - Wednesday 27th June 2018
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 25627
Other reference: DDMD062018
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: South Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Hingham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TG0302
Four figure Latitude: 52.57790757
Four figure longitude: 0.99456931
1:25K map: TG0302
1:10K map: TG00SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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