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BOOK FITTING
Unique ID: NMS-9D46FA
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Post-medieval copper alloy book clasp eye plate, rectangular with twin projections that are curled around the corroded remains of an iron bar and triangular attachment end. Perforation in both ends of plate, both with corroded iron rivet. Plate very worn and corroded, no decoration survives. Length 29mm. Width 14mm. 0.5mm thick. For more elaborate examples of this type of clasp see Margeson 1993, 74-5, pl. XIII. Later 16th - 17th century.
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 1575
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 29 mm
Width: 14 mm
Thickness: 0.5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 18th November 2014 - Monday 19th January 2015
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 34375
Other reference: NMD012015
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Broadland (District)
Parish or ward: Postwick with Witton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TG3008
Four figure Latitude: 52.62101468
Four figure longitude: 1.39650296
1:25K map: TG3008
1:10K map: TG30NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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