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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: DOR-376B29
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy strap fitting. A decorative belt mount. In plan the mount has an oval shaped body with an integral sub-triangular knop at one end. The body is decorated with an uneven cross-hatching. The knop is undecorated, and the sides are chamfered. In the centre of the body there is a single rivet hole, with an incomplete circular sectioned copper alloy rivet. The back is hollow and undecorated.
Date: Medieval - c.1150-1400
Dimensions: 14.30 mm x 9.75 mm x 5.23 mm
Weight: 1.81 g
Egan, G & Pritchard F, 2002, Dress Accessories No. 1161 and No. 1166 illustrate mounts of similar decorative style although these are bar mounts with two rivets rather than the single rivet attachment seen here.
Class: Mount
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1150
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 14.3 mm
Width: 9.75 mm
Thickness: 5.23 mm
Weight: 1.81 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 5th October 2012
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCMS 022435
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: North Dorset (District)
To be known as: Spetisbury
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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