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Unique ID: WAW-1F32EB
Object type certainty: Certain
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Post Medieval (mid 16th to 17th centuries) strap mount: The copper alloy strap mount is a sub drop in plan with a small integral knop at the upper edge and an inverted lis at th lower edge. The body of the mount has a heart-shaped openwork. The reverse is undecorated and has two integral studs which are square in section and taper to a point. One stud is bent over, the other is broken. The surface of the mount has a mid grey coloured surface. It measures 25.94mm long, 13mm wide and 4.54mm thick, weighing 2.6g.
Strap fittings have been in use from the late Medieval to Post Medieval period. Egan (2005; p. 39) comments that when they were used as dress accessories and continued on horse harness straps into the 18th century. The style of decoration is similar to that on dress hooks of the 17th century (Margeson, 1993: Nos. 71 to 75).
Egan, G. 2005 Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition MoLAS Monograph 19 p. 39
Margeson, S. 1993 Norwich Households; Medieval and Post Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-78. East Anglian Archaeology Report No. 5
Class: Mount
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Quantity: 1
Length: 25.94 mm
Width: 13 mm
Thickness: 4.54 mm
Weight: 2.6 g
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 2nd May 2014
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: SO7542
Four figure Latitude: 52.07579262
Four figure longitude: -2.3661827
1:25K map: SO7542
1:10K map: SO74SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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