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FURNITURE FITTING
Unique ID: NLM-740628
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy furniture fitting fragment. Cast object with a central feature now resembling the feather flight of an arrow, with a bevelled crescentic edge flanked by two spurs above it, and with three curlicues or knops with turned over ends, two positioned at the outer edges of the feathered motif, and one at the end of a short projection from it. The diagonal grooves which lend the appearance of an arrow flight actually continue on other parts of this object. On the back is a blind hollow of 2.8mm diameter. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1650-1750.
Length: 56.4mm, Width: 35mm, Thickness: 4.9mm, Weight: 18.33gms.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1650
Date to: Circa AD 1750
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 56.4 mm
Width: 35 mm
Thickness: 4.9 mm
Weight: 18.33 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 12th November 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM24095a
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Doncaster (Metropolitan District)
District: Doncaster (Metropolitan District)
Parish or ward: Bentley (Metropolitan District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE5513
Four figure Latitude: 53.61067493
Four figure longitude: -1.170167
1:25K map: SE5513
1:10K map: SE51SE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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