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STRAP END
Unique ID: SF8234
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Composite type strap-end, made from two sheets of copper alloy. The strap-end is 52.5 mm long, and tapers from 13.5 mm wide at the attachment end to 11.5 mm wide just before the terminal. The terminal is 17 mm long and has elaborately cut-out sides forming a trefoil on a long stem, with two transverse lobes crossing the stem. There is a single copper-alloy rivet at the attachment end and another at the terminal. One of the plates is decorated with a saltire of rocker-arm engraving at the attachment end, and an untidy line of rocker-arm extending from this towards the terminal. 14th century.
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: 52.5 mm
Width: 13.5 mm
Weight: 7.31 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st October 2001
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: St. Edmundsbury (District)
To be known as: FORNHAM ST MARTIN
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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