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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: SF-52DBD6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete and worn copper-alloy conical strap fitting of Early Medieval date. It is missing the hook due to old breaks, now worn.
It is D-shaped in section. The upper half is hollow. At the top is a circumferential band with an expanding lozenge panel in the centre of the front face. The base of this extends into a longitudinal rectangular bifurcate before joining the solid lower half. The lower half tapers into the remains of a circular hook before terminating in old breaks.
This strap fitting measures 40.37mm in length, 17.17mm in in diameter at the top, 6.34mm in width at the bottom, 7.15mm in height at the bottom, 3.56mm in diameter at the hook, 4.58mm in thickness, 10.61g in weight.
There is a similar example in Read (Read, 2008, p. 214, 770).
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1000
Date to: Circa AD 1100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 40.37 mm
Thickness: 4.58 mm
Weight: 10.61 g
Diameter: 17.17 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st July 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Mid Suffolk (District)
To be known as: Eye
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
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