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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: SOM-6673EB
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Fragment of a late Medieval to Post medieval (1400-1600) copper alloy strap fitting, possibly relating to a sword-belt hook or for suspending a purse. The outer side of the hooked piece remains but the curved base of the hook and the other side, with the strap loop for attachment is missing to a very worn break.
The remaining section has a thickened 'head' projecting backwards at 90 degrees at the complete end. The thinner bar running down from this top end narrows in width to a waist before expanding slightly again then narrowing before curving forward then back into the semi-circular hook. This hook ends in a worn, old break at the lowest point. These changes in width may have related to decoration, now too worn to see. The remaining fragment is 40.7mm long, 9.0mm wide and 10.8mm thick; it weighs 4.73 grams.
Read (2008, 214-215) has published several similar hooked fittings including no.773, a similarly plain one, and suggests a 13th-15th century date.
Class: belt hook
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 40.7 mm
Width: 9 mm
Thickness: 10.8 mm
Weight: 4.73 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st October 2013 - Thursday 31st October 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt 16613
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: West Somerset (District)
To be known as: Carhampton CP
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read, B. | 2008 | Hooked-Clasps and Eyes | Langport | Portcullis Publishing |
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