STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: BERK-F076E2
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation 
Post medieval cast copper alloy S-shaped belt hook with zoomorphic terminals. Dated to the 16th or 17th century. It is formed of a single piece of copper alloy curled round at either end to act as a fixing for a belt. Each end is cast with a narrow snout or beak with an incised line for a mouth, brow ridges in relief and small incised dots for eyes. There is also a pattern of scales or feathers on the curves (which would be the back of the ‘necks’ of the animals which are perhaps intended to be snakes or swans. The hook also has a cast decorative band around the centre with leaf or feather shapes extending from both sides towards the snakes heads.
Dated c.1550-1650 AD.
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Returned to Landowners
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: Circa AD 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1650
Dimensions and weight
Length: 40.42 mm
Width: 18.34 mm
Thickness: 6.73 mm
Weight: 15.3 g
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st September 2007
Personal details
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Recorded by: Ms Charlotte
Burrill
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Identified by: Ms Charlotte
Burrill - [view all attributed records]
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Cast [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Complete [scope notes | view all attributed records]
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Spatial metadata
Region: South East And London
County: Oxfordshire
District: West Oxfordshire
To be known as: Clanfield
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Discovery metadata
Method of discovery: Metal detector [scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land[scope notes]
Specific landuse: Character undetermined[scope notes]
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Created:
Thursday 29th November 2007
Updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
