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FINGER RING
Unique ID: LEIC-A91AC3
Object type certainty: Probably
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Roman copper alloy finger ring or bracelet fragment, 12mm in length, 1mm wide, with a weight of 0.70g.
The object is sub rectangular in form and cross section with a gently curved profile. It is decorated with an incised border 1.5mm from the edge and a central row of punched crescents with a chevron of the same punches overlaying. The object could be a finger ring fragment or perhaps part of a snake headed bracelet?
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 150
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 12 mm
Width: 1 mm
Weight: 0.7 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cambridgeshire (County)
District: South Cambridgeshire (District)
Parish or ward: Knapwell (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL3360
Four figure Latitude: 52.22215748
Four figure longitude: -0.05438244
1:25K map: TL3360
1:10K map: TL36SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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