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STRAP END
Unique ID: SF6810
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Composite strap-end made from three sheets of copper alloy sandwiched together. The strap-end is basically sub-rectangular, tapering from 16 mm wide at the attachment end to 14 mm wide before being cut into an elaborate (roughly cross-shaped) terminal. The central sheet was originally slightly longer than the other two, but has had its sub-rectangular part folded back on itself to make a gap for the strap at the attachment end. One of the outer plates is decorated on the sub-rectangular part, with a line of worn rocker-arm along each long edge and a line of six double-strand oblique lines down the centre, drawn freehand to form a rough zigzag. In the angles of the zigzag are single V-shaped stabbed punchmarks. The sheets are held together by two copper-alloy rivets at the attachment end, and a third well-concealed copper-alloy rivet in the terminal. It is now slightly bent, which has caused some stress to the metal, and in this condition measures 51 mm long.
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Class: composite
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 51 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Diameter: 8.74 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st August 2001
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Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Suffolk Coastal (District)
To be known as: SUFFOLK MARTLESHAM
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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