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MOUNT
Unique ID: LEIC-96E234
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Medieval/Post medieval copper alloy suspension? mount, 34mm long, 17mm wide and 6mm thick. It consists of a rectangular plate which has two copper alloy rivets in each upper corner. The reverse side has a patch of leather and part of a CU sheet still attached. Below this is a single centrally placed circular hole which sits above a rectangular protrusion which has been twisted so its alignment is at ninety degrees to that of the main plate. This may have formed a hook, this and the leather would suggest the object is for suspending something from a strap.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1100
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 34 mm
Width: 17 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Leather
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Nottinghamshire (County)
District: Newark and Sherwood (District)
Parish or ward: Farnsfield (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK6356
Four figure Latitude: 53.097494
Four figure longitude: -1.060596
1:25K map: SK6356
1:10K map: SK65NW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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