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FURNITURE FITTING
Unique ID: DUR-601D44
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Cast copper alloy fragment of a Post Medieval drawer handle.
It has a strip of copper alloy folded over through the top loop, presumably to attach the fitting to the drawer. The main body has a rectangular attachment loop with protruding corners and a raised lower line. It then narrows to a neck, before widening into what would have been a sub-rectangular body with leaf/floriate design on the front. This has broken only a short way down.
Class: Drawer Handle
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 37.02 mm
Width: 15.67 mm
Thickness: 3.01 mm
Weight: 4.5 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Yorkshire (County)
District: Hambleton (District)
Parish or ward: West Tanfield (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE2678
Four figure Latitude: 54.1971
Four figure longitude: -1.60298
1:25K map: SE2678
1:10K map: SE27NE
Grid reference source: Centred on village (which isn't a parish)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.
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