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Unique ID: NLM-1E0807
Object type certainty: Certain
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Iron nail. Wrought iron nail or stud with a large possibly facetted lightly concavo-convex square head, and with a tapered rectangular-section wedge-shaped shank. This would be apt to the reinforcing of a door, a usage recorded archaeologically in the region from the 1680s (at the Hull Citadel - Foreman, M. and Goodhand, S. 1996, 'The Construction of Hull Citadel', in Post-Medieval Archaeology vol. 30, 143-185, page 169, fig. 13, ), and no doubt of long standing then. The good preservation of metal suggested by its mass may suggest a post-medieval date, and the object was perhaps only released from its setting when the woodwork was burned. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1800
Length: 82.5mm, Thickness (shank): 9.9mm, Width (head): 57.8mm, Weight: 165.88gms
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: 82.5 mm
Width: 57.8 mm
Thickness: 9.9 mm
Weight: 165.88 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 3rd September 2019
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM43493
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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