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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: BERK-F77CF8
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A complete cast copper alloy strap fitting (belt decoration) of post-medieval date. The strap fitting is broadly lozengiform in plan (kite or arrowhead-shaped), with two integrally cast attachment spike on the reverse, which are both bent inwards and still adhere to a small piece of leather. The upper side of the fitting is quite worn but the narrow end may have a devolved zoomorphic terminal of an animal's head with ears flat on the head. The moulded elements over the rest of the fitting are indistinct. Suggested date: 16th to 17th century AD.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30.8 mm
Width: 13.1 mm
Thickness: 6.2 mm
Weight: 2.9 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: OXPAS2016.432
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Zoomorphic
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: South Oxfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: Great Haseley (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP6703
Four figure Latitude: 51.72173008
Four figure longitude: -1.03146331
1:25K map: SP6703
1:10K map: SP60SE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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