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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: WMID-15C5B2
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete cast copper alloy hooked decorative fitting from a mount, dating to the 16th or 17th century between AD 1500 - 1700 (length: 50.5mm; width: 21mm; thickness at hoop: 11mm; weight: 9.70g).
An asymmetrical hooked fitting (one of three problem fittings attached to a mount by integral suspension loops) from a sword belt mount. At one end, the fitting has a D-shaped sectioned hook (length: 16mm), which curves round to the front of the artefact with a knobbed terminal at the end. The main body of the fitting (length: 35mm) is foliate or leaf-like in form with varying widths where the shape curves in and out as well as a triple flat lobed terminal at the end. On the front of the artefact, there is also moulded foliate design with two sub-circular copper alloy rivets (average diameter: 4mm) still intact: one near the top and one near the bottom. Both these rivets protrude out fro the back of the fitting by 2.5mm. The back of the artefact is undecorated.
An identical and complete example of what the complete mount with fittings would have looked like is illustrated in Read, B, 2001, 'Metal Artefacts of Antiquity: A Catalogue of Small Finds from Specific Areas of the United Kingdom Volume One', pages 39 & 43, fig 26, ref no 373, found in West Somerset.
Class: sword belt fitting
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 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 50.5 mm
Width: 21 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight: 9.7 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st January 1975 - Sunday 1st January 2006
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Tong
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
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 | pages 39 & 43 | fig 26 & ref no 373 |
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