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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: WAW-55DE50
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Post Medieval strap fitting; a decorative mount. In plan, the copper alloy mount is an elongated drop shape. It is undecorated on the upper surface. The reverse is also undecorated and has two integral spikes which are oval in section, one tapers to a point and is bent to one side, the other is incomplete. The surface of the mount has an incomplete mid green patina with large abraded red/brown corrosion. It measures 24.53mm long, 14.33mm wide and 4.78mm thick, weighing 2.9g.
Strap fittings have been in use from the late Medieval to Post Medieval period. Egan (2005; p. 39) comments that when they were used as dress accessories and continued on horse harness straps into the 18th century. This example probably dates to the 16th to 18th centuries.
Egan, G. 2005 Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition MoLAS Monograph 19 p. 39
Class: Mount
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 24.53 mm
Width: 14.33 mm
Thickness: 4.78 mm
Weight: 2.9 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 25th October 2012 - Monday 2nd December 2013
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: West Oxfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: Shipton-under-Wychwood (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP2616
Four figure Latitude: 51.84200253
Four figure longitude: -1.62401256
1:25K map: SP2616
1:10K map: SP21NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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