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BUCKLE
Unique ID: NLM-DFF851
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy and (possibly) textile, buckle. A tiny cast single looped buckle with pointed lipped and notched outer edge and an offset strap bar retaining a slotted and folded sheet metal plate (sheet thickness 0.8mm) secured at its curved end by a single rivet of diameter 2mm and length 2.6mm. Fibrous material between the plates may represent the survival of a textile strap of thickness 1.7mm. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1450.
Length (overall): 21.9mm, Height: 13.8mm, Thickness: 3.2mm, Weight (with trapped ?soil): 1.57gms.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1350
Date to: Circa AD 1450
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 21.9 mm
Height: 13.8 mm
Thickness: 3.2 mm
Weight: 1.57 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 11th February 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM21882a
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Textile
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Thonock (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK8292
Four figure Latitude: 53.418439
Four figure longitude: -0.767645
1:25K map: SK8292
1:10K map: SK89SW
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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