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BUCKLE
Unique ID: NMS-A1FD22
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Edge and parts of the sides of a medieval copper alloy oval buckle frame with filed oblique grooves on the front forming a cable motif. The width, 45mm, suggests that the complete object was double-looped, as Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 342, rather than single as Whitehead 2003, no. 122. 15th century.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Width: 45 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 15th March 2016 - Monday 11th April 2016
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 3488
Other reference: KLMD042016
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Surface Treatment: Incised or engraved or chased
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Flitcham with Appleton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF7025
Four figure Latitude: 52.79577906
Four figure longitude: 0.51996254
1:25K map: TF7025
1:10K map: TF72NW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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