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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: WAW-F712A6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A cast copper-alloy strap slide, for holding down the free end of a strap. The frame is trapezoidal, and the narrowest side has a central hole through which there is a copper-alloy rivet with a flat pointed-oval head. The opposite side is domed in cross-section, with the exterior edge forming the domed surface. The other sides are sub-rectangular in section. The loop has a mid green/grey patina. It measures 14.73mm long, 13.64mm wide and 4.37mm thick. It weighs 1.45g.
Similar strap-slides are illustrated in Egan and Pritchard 2002, for example nos. 1249 and 1250, which are dated to the late 13th to 14th centuries.
Class: strap slide
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1275
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 14.73 mm
Width: 13.64 mm
Thickness: 4.37 mm
Weight: 1.45 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 2006
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Worcestershire (County)
District: Wychavon (District)
Parish or ward: Inkberrow (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP0055
Four figure Latitude: 52.193239
Four figure longitude: -2.001418
1:25K map: SP0055
1:10K map: SP05NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egan, G. and Pritchard, F. | 1991 | Dress Accessories, c.1150-c.1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London 3) (1991) | London | Stationery Office Books | Nos.1249 and 1250 |
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