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BUCKLE
Unique ID: NMS-E3504B
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Fragment of a post-medieval copper alloy shoe buckle frame, half one side broken across the spindle housing and just over half of one edge. The latter was comprised of two round apertures flanking a pin groove (a simpler version of Whitehead 2003, no. 613). Estimated length and width 34 and 21mm. c.1660 - c.1720.
Within 20m around grid reference
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 1660
Date to: Circa AD 1720
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 2
Length: 34 mm
Width: 21 mm
Weight: 11.82 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 17th February 2015 - Monday 16th March 2015
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 33006
Other reference: NMD032015
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Fincham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF6907
Four figure Latitude: 52.63443432
Four figure longitude: 0.4958979
1:25K map: TF6907
1:10K map: TF60NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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