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BRACELET
Unique ID: DOR-AB7E5C
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment of copper alloy sectional bracelet dating to c. 400 BC - AD 43. An almost complete short section, probably from a two-part bracelet. The piece is parallel sided and curving, C-shaped in cross section (convex on the upper face). The ends are straight with a rectangular pierced lug projecting on the vertical axis from the centre of one edge and an oval cross-sectioned pointed lug projecting from the centre of the opposite end. The lug has a large circular aperture and would have attached to an axis point on the missing part of the bracelet in order to form a hinged opening. The projection at the opposite end would have fastened the section in place when closed. The upper face of the piece is decorated with a series of deep, transverse rounded ridges with deep grooves between.
Date: Middle to Late Iron Age
Dimensions: 44.6mm x 8.5mm x 5.3mm
Weight: 9.37g
Class: Beaded
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 400 BC
Date to: Circa AD 43
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 44.6 mm
Width: 8.5 mm
Thickness: 5.3 mm
Weight: 9.37 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCMS 019039
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: Purbeck (District)
Parish or ward: Bere Regis (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SY8296
Four figure Latitude: 50.76330752
Four figure longitude: -2.25658361
1:25K map: SY8296
1:10K map: SY86NW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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