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Unique ID: SOM-CFB7CB
Object type certainty: Certain
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Lower part of a Medieval cast copper alloy forked spacer from a composite strap end. The spacer terminates with a crude acorn shaped knop (oval 'nut' in a tapering oval sectioned 'cup'). There is a collar between the terminal and spacer plate. The front and back plates of the strap end are missing but would have abutted this collar leaving the terminal projecting. The spacer plate is broadly U shaped with a curved base with a more angular outer edge. The longer arms that would have projected up from either side of this base are missing to old breaks. The fragment is now 25.8 mm in length, 20.8 mm wide, 5.4 mm thick including the terminal, 2.9 mm thick excluding it and weighs 4.66 g.
Egan and Pritchard illustrate a similar example, no.673 (1991 :143-4) and suggest strap ends of this form had a broadly 14th century date (ibid:145)
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Quantity: 1
Length: 25.8 mm
Width: 20.8 mm
Thickness: 5.4 mm
Weight: 4.66 g
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Other reference: SCC receipt 16624
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Egan, G. and Pritchard, F. | 1991 | Dress Accessories, c.1150-c.1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London 3) (1991) | London | Stationery Office Books |