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BUCKLE
Unique ID: NMS-EA1F40
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Front part of a medieval gilt copper alloy rectangular buckle plate broken before the fold, with two rivet holes and a very small part of a pin slot or hole extant. Within a frame a lion passant reguardant is in high relief on a very finely engraved field. Very similar to Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 500 whose image was produced by die-stamping. The image on the present example was produced in the same way. Extant length 28.7mm. Width 14.5mm. Thickness 2mm. c.1200 - c.1250.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1250
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 28.7 mm
Width: 14.5 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 20th February 2014 - Wednesday 19th March 2014
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 59675
Other reference: AHS032014
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Fragment
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Breckland (District)
Parish or ward: Snetterton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL9889
Four figure Latitude: 52.4630323
Four figure longitude: 0.91314501
1:25K map: TL9889
1:10K map: TL98NE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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