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STRAP FITTING

Unique ID: SF9140

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

Possible barred mount. A piece of copper-alloy sheet, now fragmentary but originally shield-shaped, has a broken rivet hole towards the pointed end. The straight end has a bar-mount fixed across it, made from solid rectangular-section copper alloy bar with the short ends bevelled, rather than the more usual curved piece of copper-alloy sheet. This is attached by separate two copper-alloy rivets rather than the more usual one; the more complete rivet is 5 mm long, and has corrosion around its shaft suggesting the original presence of a rove.

Class: barred mount

Chronology

Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1250
Date to: AD 1450

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 18 mm
Width: 19 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight: 2.58 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st December 2000

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: Finder's ref. 6100

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: Eastern (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Waveney (District)
To be known as: COVEHITHE

Spatial coordinates

Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Character undetermined

References cited

No references cited so far.

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Recording Institution: SF
Created: 21 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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