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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: GLO-4DE782
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Post Medieval copper alloy sword belt hanger. The object is roughly foliate in form, with moulded decoration forming a leaf pattern, a trefoil shaped terminal and hook at the base (now truncated). There are two circular fixing holes, one on the trefoil terminal and one above twhere he hook was, both are encrusted with iron corrosion. This would have been one of two or three fittings that together formed a hanging arrangement for a sword, date 16th-17th century.
Class: sword belt fitting
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 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 34 mm
Width: 20 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 4.99 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st December 2013 - Saturday 1st March 2014
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Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Gloucestershire (County)
District: Cotswold (District)
To be known as: Withington
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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