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UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Unique ID: LIN-B820C5
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy unidentified object of unknown date, possibly an openwork mount, fitting or buckle of some kind, probably post-medieval in date. The object is rectangular in cross-section and crescentic which expands at the centre and forks into two protrusions. No decoration is visible. Recovered from the same findspot as PAS no. LIN-B7DEE2 and PAS no. LIN-B81029. Stylistically parallels LIN-B7DEE2.
Length: 44.30 mm; Width: 25.09 mm; Thickness: 3.41 mm; Weight: 8.38g
Possibly a buckle fragment the same item as LIN-B7DEE2 and LIN-B81029.
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 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 44.3 mm
Width: 25.09 mm
Thickness: 3.41 mm
Weight: 8.38 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: North Kesteven (District)
To be known as: Osbournby area
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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