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BUCKLE
Unique ID: NMS-A79710
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete medieval gilt copper alloy buckle plate, sub-oval with a perforated oval lobe at terminal containing corroded remains of a copper alloy rivet, and perforated lobese on both sides. Pin-slot, broken across loops, back-part missing. Blue enamelled tripartite linear decoration on face. Length 24mm. Width 17mm. See broadly similar (non enamelled) form in Whitehead (2003), 18, no.48. Late 12th-13th century.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1175
Date to: Circa AD 1300
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 24 mm
Width: 17 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 12th June 2013 - Wednesday 10th July 2013
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 39625
Other reference: AMD072013
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Enamel
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Broadland (District)
Parish or ward: Lingwood and Burlingham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TG3608
Four figure Latitude: 52.618443
Four figure longitude: 1.484969
1:25K map: TG3608
1:10K map: TG30NE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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