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SLAG
Unique ID: NLM-F9B5F4
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Iron slag. Two small lumps of ferrous metalworking debris, both vesicular, possibly joining, and possibly with fragmentary traces of a relatively smooth and rounded base (cf. NLM-F9AB44); and with angular lumps apparent on their uneven upper surfaces. Suggested date: Unknown, Late Iron Age to Early Medieval, 100 BC - AD1000
Weight: 119.38gms
Class: possibly Furnace Bottom
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa 100 BC
Date to: Circa AD 1000
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 2
Weight: 119.38 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 3rd September 2019
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM43474
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: near Market Rasen
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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