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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: NMS-9AD464
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Medieval copper alloy belt mount, very crude hollow-cast scallop-shaped with filed radiating grooved notches in lower edge and face, upper end of hinge transversely grooved, central perforation, rivet missing. Length 12mm. Width 16mm. See a similar mount from Westbury in Mills in Tattenhoe and Westbury (1995), fig.153, no.63. 15th century.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 12 mm
Width: 16 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 20th October 2013 - Monday 18th November 2013
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 40287
Other reference: NMD112013
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Shouldham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF6707
Four figure Latitude: 52.63505286
Four figure longitude: 0.46637364
1:25K map: TF6707
1:10K map: TF60NE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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