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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: CAM-F9F557
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Chunky hooked fitting made from copper alloy. The [looped] end of the curved part of the hook is broken off, but enough survives to show that the hook's cross-section was lozengiform with a lower carination internally and a higher one externally. The hook itself is large and the break is relatively fresh. On the back of the hook is a raised flattened area. The surviving end, near the raised flattened area, turns a right angle, but keeps the same cross-section, and becomes a straight shaft decorated with diagonal grooves running across the carination to give a twisted cable effect. This shaft ends in an animal-head terminal set at right angles and so pointing the same way as the broken end of the hook. The animal head has a pair of grooves on each side which should probably be read as an eye and an ear, and a turned-up snout and open jaws. The snout also appears to have some grooved decoration but the terminal is very worn.
Length 66 mm, weight 20.68g. Medieval, probably 13th to 15th century.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 66 mm
Width: 8 mm
Weight: 20.68 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 20th February 2009
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Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cambridgeshire (County)
District: South Cambridgeshire (District)
Parish or ward: Longstanton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL3967
Four figure Latitude: 52.28357
Four figure longitude: 0.036274
1:25K map: TL3967
1:10K map: TL36NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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