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BOOK FITTING
Unique ID: NMS-74760F
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Two post-medieval copper alloy hooked book clasps with gently flaring terminals, straight sides, one iron rivet and punched decoration, 16th century:
- rather worn decoration including transverse lines of dots and oblique dashes and a zig-zag edge towards the terminal, length and width 41.3 and 14mm.
- two transverse lines of dots flanking an elaborate quatrefoil, length and width 25.8 and 10.7mm.
Field ASH1
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 2
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st March 2016 - Thursday 31st March 2016
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 18006
Other reference: SET032016
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: South Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TM1397
Four figure Latitude: 52.52920487
Four figure longitude: 1.13871322
1:25K map: TM1397
1:10K map: TM19NW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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