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VESSEL
Unique ID: LIN-574DCD
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete enamelled copper alloy hook-mount from an Early Medieval hanging bowl. The mount has an incomplete oval body, which is slightly dome, and is broken at the lower tip. The body of the escutcheon is decorated with a conjoined pair of swirls in reserve metal set on a recessed and enamelled background. The enamel is brown in colour but may originally have been red. Further motifs in reserve metal are seen below the swirls. but these are too worn to describe.
A sub-oval boss is located at the top of the mount, and the remains of a hook extends a very short way at the top. The centre of the boss has a recessed crescentic cell filled with degraded enamel. The enamel is now brown in colour but may originally have been red.
Class: hanging bowl
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 600
Date to: Circa AD 700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 23 mm
Width: 18 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight: 5.21 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Chapel St. Leonards (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF5572
Four figure Latitude: 53.22243931
Four figure longitude: 0.32022994
1:25K map: TF5572
1:10K map: TF57SE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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