Lots of good info at:
http://www.925-1000.com/british_marks.html
but none of it seems relevant to this particular case.....
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Thompson, Woodrow B.
Sent: 18 March 2010 02:20 PM
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There's also an odd groove around the perimeter of the specimen.
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Keith Nicholls
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:05 AM
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Looks to me like there is some more to the stamp mark - to the left of
the letter R, been worn away
Keith
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Thompson, Woodrow B.
Sent: 18 March 2010 02:02 PM
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The piece looks so pure that a specific gravity measurement should be
easy and perhaps diagnostic. The shape is curious. It looks
stream-rounded, and yet the stamp marks have not worn off. Perhaps they
survived because of having been deeply incised.
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Tim Young
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 9:40 AM
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I see this find is already pictured on the internet at:
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?p=475325
and has already been reported to the authorities.
I assume it has been correctly identified - I've seen waterworn blocks
of aluminium that look
quite like this (quite common where joy riders dump cars into
streams!!).
Tim
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