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ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT
Unique ID: NMS-CB6D66
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Dressed block of shelly limestone, probably Barnack, which has been cut twice:
- firstly a voussoir with an angle roll (diameter 100mm) and adjacent hollow chamfer and, on the other side of the roll, a wider offset and plain chamfer that has been broken.12th century
- secondly as a voussoir with tight hollow chamfers flanking a 70mm wide filet, and cutting through the left-hand hollow is the end of a dying moulding, probably a hood mould. 14th century.
180 x 160 x 150mm.
There is fire damage with pink surfaces on some minor breaks.
Notes:
Submitted to the Cambridgshire Finds Liaison Officer at a Wisbech Museum finds day on 2/6/04.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1100
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 180 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 150 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st January 2004 - Wednesday 2nd June 2004
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 34743
Other reference: WPS102018
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Outwell (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF4901
Four figure Latitude: 52.58639006
Four figure longitude: 0.19790713
1:25K map: TF4901
1:10K map: TF40SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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