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BUCKLE
Unique ID: NMS-BD6DD6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Two medieval gilt copper-alloy pins from disc-on-pin brooches, the central part of both comprising a disc with a circular central sunken cell, now empty. One is complete (length 26mm, width / diameter 13mm), and the other lacks most of its loop and pointed end (width / diameter 11.5mm). They can be classified as Redmayne's Type B. Williams and Geake 2005, 346-8, fig. 9a. c. 13th-14th century.
Class:
disc-on-pin
Sub class: Redmayne Type B
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 2
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st January 2014 - Monday 24th March 2014
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 30883
Other reference: BM032014
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
To be known as: near Fakenham
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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