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Unique ID: NMS-025EBE
Object type certainty: Certain
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Post-medieval copper alloy shoe buckle with an iron spindle, complete apart from the distal half of the pin. The sub-rectangular frame is undecorated. cf. Whitehead 2003, no. 663. The stud chape is stamped on the front face with the maker's name, S / COOK to be read with the stud downwards. Length and width of frame 23 and 18mm. Overall length 30mm. c. 1690 - c.1720.
Similar S / COOK stamps have been recorded on shoe buckles with both stud and "cooking pot" chapes in Norfolk at Attleborough (HER 56326, NMS-51AEA7), Kempstone (HER 13042, NMS- 4A0012) and Swanton Morley (HER-12299, NMS-FB6291). Other counties have also produced examples: Cheshire East (LVPL-7E7042), Dorset (PUBLIC-3DE282, PUBLIC-F07365, DOR-3B1FF2, HAMP-1E8677), Isle of Wight (IOW-8432C7), Lincolnshire (NLM-D32891) and North Yorkshire (SWYOR-2777E5).
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1690
Date to: Circa AD 1720
Quantity: 1
Length: 30 mm
Width: 18 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 18th September 2012 - Thursday 9th April 2015
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SMR reference number: 42698
Other reference: IND09042015ED
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: TF9223
Four figure Latitude: 52.77045009
Four figure longitude: 0.8446764
1:25K map: TF9223
1:10K map: TF92SW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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