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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: HAMP-F4C357
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A post-medieval cast copper-alloy uniface mount in the form of an acorn. On the upper face the acorn is moulded and the cup decorated with an incised transverse line, below which crudely incised diagonals. The stalk forks into two elements. In profile the stalk has been bent upwards as a result of old damage. The reverse features a pair of broken and unaligned pointed lugs suggestive of a c. 17th-century date. Similar figurative mounts can be found illustrated in Read (2001, 29, 37; refs. 331-334), although this example is larger than any of those published in the above.
Class: acorn
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 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 39.5 mm
Width: 21.45 mm
Thickness: 1.6 mm
Weight: 4.95 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 15th February 2005
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: E1765; NFR 916
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Test Valley (District)
Parish or ward: Kings Somborne (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU3632
Four figure Latitude: 51.086192
Four figure longitude: -1.487395
1:25K map: SU3632
1:10K map: SU33SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read, B. | 2001 | Metal artefacts of antiquity: A catalogue of small finds from specific areas of the United Kingdom | Langport | Portcullis Publishing | 29, 37 | 331-334 |
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