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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: WAW-49EDD2
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper alloy buckle plate. The plate is made of a sub-oval sheet which has a fold at one edge. The fold has a central slot and side slots removed leave off-set folded arms which would have been folded around the strap bar of the buckle. The upper plate is decorated, but the design is unclear. The design is depicted by low-relief grooves rather than cells. The plate has a three rivet holes, two near the folded edge and one at the opposite terminal. The plate is slightly crumpled. The plate on the reverse is much more narrow and is fragmentary. The break on the edge is not recent. The surface of the plate has a dark green patina. It measures 30.19mm long, 26.7mm wide and weighs 4.5g.
The buckle plate is probably Medieval, dating to the 13th to 15th centuries.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30.19 mm
Width: 26.7 mm
Weight: 4.5 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 28th January 2010 - Thursday 25th March 2010
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Worcestershire (County)
District: Malvern Hills (District)
Parish or ward: Leigh (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO7653
Four figure Latitude: 52.174731
Four figure longitude: -2.352372
1:25K map: SO7653
1:10K map: SO75SE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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