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Unique ID: LEIC-4077F9
Object type certainty: Probably
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status: Awaiting validation 
Post Medieval lead alloy object fragment, 44 mm long, 16 mm wide and 7 mm thick with a weight of 14.86g.
The object is rectangular in form and cross section and may be part of a toy rifle? It has a sub rectangular plain shaft for two-thirds of its length. It then widens out and narrows in thickness to form a sub triangular terminal which is decorated with raised cross hatched lines contained in a raised border which is rounded on the shaft.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 44 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 14.86 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Charnwood (District)
Parish or ward: Woodhouse (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK5214
Four figure Latitude: 52.72116003
Four figure longitude: -1.23156245
1:25K map: SK5214
1:10K map: SK51SW
Grid reference source: Centred on village (which isn't a parish)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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