Rights Holder: The Portable Antiquities Scheme
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Unique ID: LANCUM-7B8948
Object type certainty: Certain
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A complete copper alloy bar mount dating to the period ADc.1350- c.1400AD. The mount consists of a rounded body with two terminal lobes with surviving attachment rivets. The body is decorated with five ridges horizontal incised grooves. The body is convex and the reverse is concave. The length is 17mm, the width is 9mm and the weight 1.30g.
Please see Read (2001) "Metal Artefacts of Antiquity. A Catalogue of Small Finds from Specific Areas of the United Kingdom". Page 23, figure 12, Nos. 149, 150 and 151 for similar. See also WILT-A35892 and WILT-88E107 on the PAS for other examples
Class: Bar
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1350
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Quantity: 1
Length: 17 mm
Width: 9 mm
Weight: 1.3 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 10th September 2018 - Monday 10th September 2018
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4 Figure: TF0053
Four figure Latitude: 53.0648949
Four figure longitude: -0.50912783
1:25K map: TF0053
1:10K map: TF05SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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