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BOOK FITTING
Unique ID: NMS-132C97
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete and partly distorted post-medieval copper alloy book clasp eye plate, with the flaring, probably fishtail, terminal missing. Near the latter there is a rivet hole in the centre of double concentric punched rings. At the other end there is longitudinal grooved decoration with a hole in the centre containing an attachment spike or tack (not a rivet). The width increases through an offset before two projection that are curled around an iron bar. Extant length and width 38mm and 18mm. For this type of clasp see Margeson 1993, 74-5, pl. XIII. 16th century.
Finder's Group 2, see annotated aerial photograph in file.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 38 mm
Width: 18 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 19th February 2013 - Monday 18th March 2013
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 54056
Other reference: NMD032013
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: South Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Morley (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TM0698
Four figure Latitude: 52.540872
Four figure longitude: 1.036296
1:25K map: TM0698
1:10K map: TM09NE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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