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FURNITURE FITTING
Unique ID: SUSS-17E087
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A possible Post Medieval copper alloy furniture fitting, c. 1500-1800. An undiagnostic suspension loop, which has been broken in antiquity. The loop is trapezodial and flat, leading to a transverse groove decoration on an elongated waist, below which is the break; the loop has iron corrosion on the inner edge suggesting that there was a further iron component which is now missing. The back of the loop is flat; the reverse of the waist is concave. It measures 22.2 mm in length, 12.2 mm wide, 4.3 mm think and weighs 2.21 g.
It is similar in style to a Roman pendant, however the hollow reverse surface suggests that it dates to the Post Medieval period.
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 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 22.2 mm
Width: 12.2 mm
Thickness: 4.3 mm
Weight: 2.21 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Sussex (County)
District: Wealden (District)
Parish or ward: Alciston (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ5005
Four figure Latitude: 50.82511496
Four figure longitude: 0.12834993
1:25K map: TQ5005
1:10K map: TQ50NW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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