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PADLOCK
Unique ID: NLM-AEC2AD
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Iron possible barrel padlock fragment. Fragment of a possibly cylindrical object closed at a flanged end, and with a rib at right angles to that end, here taken to be one end of a barrel padlock. Fiercely abraded and corroded. Suggested date: Medieval, 1100-1350
Length: 31.7mm, Diameter: [in excess of] 22.8mm, Thickness (where rib meets plate): 5mm, Weight: 5.73gms
Class: Barrel
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 1350
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 31.7 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight: 5.73 g
Diameter: 22.8 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 13th January 2019
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM41480
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Roxby cum Risby (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE9113
Four figure Latitude: 53.60566739
Four figure longitude: -0.62617695
1:25K map: SE9113
1:10K map: SE91SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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