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HARNESS FITTING
Unique ID: NMS-35D496
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Roman copper alloy, probably military, harness fitting: a domed, hollow-backed rectangular or lozengiform strap slide with incomplete rectangular loop on the reverse. In the centre between four quarter-circular apertures there is a separate convex-headed rivet. At two opposing corners there a slight lobes, at one other a larger lobe and at the fourth an incomplete and even larger, pierced and probably circular projection. Length 26mm, width 23mm. Loop on reverse has dimensions of 15mm x 9mm. No close parallel noted. Dates to the 2nd - 3rd century.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: Circa AD 300
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 26 mm
Width: 23 mm
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 15539
Other reference: BKLG2012
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
To be known as: Crimplesham
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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