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STRAP END
Unique ID: NMS-470681
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Medieval one-piece strap end, formed from sheet folded widthways with wide gap at the fold, with wire hook and two separate rivets near the attachment edge. The wire is folded in half and fitted into the fold. The attachment edge is decorated with a trefoil grooved aperture (incomplete) and the front face with rocker-arm engraving, two large saltires with short lengths in the angles. 25mm x 32mm, the hook projecting 11mm. 15th - early 16th century.
Compare NMS-598075. This type of object is identified by Howsam (2016, 51) as a fitting for a bookmark, and assigned to her type B.7.
Sub class: Howsam type B.7
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1400
Date to: AD 1539
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 32 mm
Width: 25 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st June 2005
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
To be known as: West Acre
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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