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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: SUR-E09886
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment of what appears to be an openwork strap fitting, perhaps of 11th or 12th century date. The cast copper alloy object comprises a zoomorphic, debased animal head, terminal with a rounded rebated projection which is pierced by an attachment hole in which part of an iron rivet survives. Another iron rivet pierces the body and behind this is a raised transverse collar or ridge. The object expands away from the terminal and is broken unevenly across a large opening, probably originally triangular, one straight side of which survives.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1050
Date to: Exactly AD 1200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 31.19 mm
Width: 8.85 mm
Thickness: 3.77 mm
Weight: 2.53 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: B13-614
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: South Oxfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: Shiplake (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU7779
Four figure Latitude: 51.50469783
Four figure longitude: -0.89198882
1:25K map: SU7779
1:10K map: SU77NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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