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FURNITURE FITTING
Unique ID: NMS-24DEAD
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Badly distorted fragment of a medieval copper alloy decorative binding strip from a casket, both ends broken. A narrow D-section bar with two domed oval bosses, one in the centre and the other, pierced for attachment, at a break. No gilding has survived. Extant length c.50mm. Width 2.9 and 7mm. A well-known 12th- to 13th-century type normally associated with high status castles and manorial sites (Goodall, A. 1982; Barton and Holden 1977, 60).
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 1300
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 50 mm
Width: 7 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 21st July 2014 - Monday 8th December 2014
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 51160
Other reference: SB022015
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: East Walton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF7516
Four figure Latitude: 52.71335905
Four figure longitude: 0.58924055
1:25K map: TF7516
1:10K map: TF71NE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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