FURNITURE FITTING
Unique ID: NMS-FA74E3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation 
Elaborate hook from furniture, cast in the form of the head of a bird, possibly a heron, incised ring-and-dot for both eyes, narrowed snake-like body cast with cable moulding and looped with splayed projection with corroded remains of inserted iron fixing. 61 x 30mm (length excludes corroded remains of rivet). Cf. identical although fragmentary examples from Hales (Norfolk HER 21515) and Horning (Norfolk HER 8446), formerly described as a Roman spoon or vessel handle in the shape of a heron. Late 17th-18th century.
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
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Date from: AD 1650
Date to: AD 1799
Dimensions and weight
Length: 61 mm
Width: 30 mm
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st October 2009 - Monday 30th November 2009
Personal details
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Recorded by: Hazel
White
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Identified by: Dr Andrew
Rogerson - [view all attributed records]
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Secondary material: Iron [scope notes| view all attributed records]
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Spatial metadata
Region: East
County: Norfolk
District: Broadland
To be known as: Postwick
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Discovery metadata
Method of discovery: Metal detector [scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land[scope notes]
Specific landuse: Operations to a depth less than 0.25 m[scope notes]
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Created:
Monday 21st December 2009
Updated: Sunday 6th March 2011
