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FIGURINE
Unique ID: YORYM-15D489
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete gilded copper alloy figurine or fitting dating from the Post-Medieval period (c. AD 1700-1900). It depicts the head of a snake, depicted in three dimensions, and is broken at the neck. The head included a pair fo bulging eyes situated above a ridge which terminates with a snub nose. The upper and sides are decorated with backward facing triangular scales. Between the scales, the gilding survives most prominently. It is probably cast in two pieces, with a longitudinal seam evident along one of the sides. At the exposed edge, the hollow interior can be seen; the manufacturing of the neck is formed from opposing folded under edges from a single sheet.
Length: 30.8mm, width: 14.2mm, thickness: 6.1mm, weight: 3.4g.
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 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30.8 mm
Width: 14.2 mm
Thickness: 6.1 mm
Weight: 3.4 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: YMT : E06220
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Rudston (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TA0968
Four figure Latitude: 54.0963636
Four figure longitude: -0.33475412
1:25K map: TA0968
1:10K map: TA06NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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