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STRAP END
Unique ID: BUC-F60443
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Part of a copper-alloy strap-end of Late Medieval to early post-Medieval date.
The surviving piece represents the upper plate of the strap slot and is sub-rectangular in plan. The right- and left-hand sides have a 90 degree downward bend, there are two decorative transverse grooves at the closed end, and at the open end, the in situ remains of two corroded iron rivets. The remains of a flat-section terminal project from the closed end of the socket.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1375
Date to: Circa AD 1525
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 32.32 mm
Width: 19.78 mm
Thickness: 7.33 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 5th September 2009
Rally details.
This object was found at Weekend Wanderers - Wendover Dean 5.9.09
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Buckinghamshire (County)
District: Aylesbury Vale (District)
To be known as: Wendover
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
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