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FURNITURE FITTING
Unique ID: NMS-BE8357
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Small fragment of a medieval gilt copper alloy furniture fitting, a D-sectioned strip widenening into domed lobes, both of which are truncated by a break. One lobe may have been pierced by an attachment hole. part of a class of object frequently encountered on post-Conquest high status sites, cf. Goddall, A.R. in Coad and Streeten 1982, fig. 43 nos. 13 and 14. Extant length 22mm. Width 2.2 - 6.4mm. 12th century.
Within 20m of grid reference.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1100
Date to: Circa AD 1200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 22 mm
Width: 6.4 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 17th February 2015 - Monday 16th March 2015
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 33342
Other reference: NMD032015
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Shouldham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF6808
Four figure Latitude: 52.64372579
Four figure longitude: 0.48164437
1:25K map: TF6808
1:10K map: TF60NE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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