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FURNITURE FITTING
Unique ID: SUSS-943754
Object type certainty: Probably
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete, cast, copper alloy mount or binding strip possibly from a casket or box probably of Post Medieval date c. AD1600-1800.
The mount is slightly bent and comprises a flat narrow copper alloy strip with invected edges and worn breaks at each end. The upper surface is decorated in cast, moulded relief comprising a pair of curvilinear borders (approximately 3.5mm wide), that undulate to each opposing edge and interlock creating the invected external edges of the plate. Within each loop is a four petalled flower with central pellet. There are two rivet holes within two alternate loops of the plate drilled through the petals of the flowers. The reverse if flat and plain and the object has a mid brown patina.
Measurements: length: 80.58mm; width: 16.43mm; thickness; 2.71mm and weight: 20.42g.
A mount with a similar undulating moulded pattern is recorded as: SUSS-CACF65 dating to the 18th century.
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 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 23rd October 2022
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Floral
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: East Hampshire (District)
Parish or ward: Buriton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU7420
Four figure Latitude: 50.97466855
Four figure longitude: -0.947378
1:25K map: SU7420
1:10K map: SU72SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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