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STRAP FITTING

Unique ID: NMS-4A30B1

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Four medieval copper alloy strap fittings, late 13^th - mid 15^th century:

sheet strip, now bent, with rounded terminals, one next to an opposed pair of minute projections and pierced by a rivet hole containing a rivet, the other not pierced and probably incomplete. Porbably a belt mount. Length 38mm. Width 2.9 - 5.5mm.
simple sheet disc belt mount, gently domed, with a central iron rivet. Diameter 13.7mm. Height 2.2mm.
sheet sexfoil belt mount, gently domed around a central rivet hole, stamped out to the shape of the lobes (Egan and Pritchard 1991, fig. 118 A).
bar-mount with pierced terminal lobes countersunk at the rear and containing rivet and large domed central lobe decorated with five longitudinal filed grooves and many shallow transverse grooves. Length 9.3mm. Width 19.4mm.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1270
Date to: Circa AD 1450

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 4

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 19th September 2015 - Monday 14th December 2015

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Other reference numbers

SMR reference number: 60993
Other reference: SB022016

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Completeness: Complete

Spatial metadata

Region: Eastern (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Gayton (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: TF7217
Four figure Latitude: 52.72330069
Four figure longitude: 0.54540007
1:25K map: TF7217
1:10K map: TF71NW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

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Recording Institution: NMS
Created: 8 years ago
Updated: 8 years ago

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