Rights Holder: The Portable Antiquities Scheme
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Unique ID: BH-3950B3
Object type certainty: Certain
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A copper-alloy strap-slide of probable early 13th to late 15th century AD date. The object consists of a trapezoidal frame measuring up to 16.5mm high by 14.8mm long. The sides of the frame measure 3.7mm high and have flat faces, the only exception to this being the outer face of the longer vertical side, which is slightly convex. A small circular hole is situated at the centre of the shorter vertical side. The object is heavily corroded. It weighs 1.22g.
Class: strap slide
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Quantity: 1
Length: 14.8 mm
Width: 16.5 mm
Thickness: 3.7 mm
Weight: 1.22 g
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 20th September 2005
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Other reference: Ver 05/155 - 31
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Egan, G. and Pritchard, F. | 1991 | Dress Accessories, c.1150-c.1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London 3) (1991) | London | Stationery Office Books | 229-230 |