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FASTENING
Unique ID: LANCUM-1B8ED6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Cast copper alloy clothes fastener, probably dating from the post-medieval or early modern period, that is c. AD1600-1800. The fastener is complete except for the very tip of the hook which is broken off. It is of roughly triangular shape with a perforated lobe on three corners and a heart-shaped cut-put in the centre. There is no further decoration. The pierced lobes would have been used to sew the hook to an item of clothing.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 33 mm
Width: 29.6 mm
Thickness: 2.1 mm
Weight: 6.23 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st June 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Swindon (Unitary Authority)
District: Swindon (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Wroughton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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