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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: NMS-774342
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Male or toggle half of post-medieval copper alloy openwork strap clasp with two rivet holes, one with remains of an iron rivet. Details of form and decoration as Read 2008, 208-9, nos. 753-4. For use with a chatelaine rather than a sword belt (de Reuck 2005). Length and width 42 and 17.9mm. 16th - 17th century.
Field CAW2
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 1540
Date to: Exactly AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 42 mm
Width: 17.9 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st March 2016 - Thursday 31st March 2016
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 30948
Other reference: SET032016
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Broadland (District)
Parish or ward: Cawston (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TG1324
Four figure Latitude: 52.77156028
Four figure longitude: 1.15613091
1:25K map: TG1324
1:10K map: TG12SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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