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STRAP END
Unique ID: KENT-2947B7
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper-alloy Y-shaped spacer for a Medieval composite strap end, dating to the period 1100-1500.
Description: The frame is Y-shaped, with long thin upper arms rectangular in cross-section. At the rectangular meeting point of the arms and the lower section there is a rivet which remains in situ. The bottom section consists of a ribbed projection that narrows along its length. The spacer is Dark green in colour.
Measurements: 27.39mm long, 9.16mm wide, 3.12mm thick and 1.88g in weight.
Discussion: For complete examples see Egan and Pritchard (1993), p144, nos.681-682, but also SOM-B54125 and HAMP-294347 on this database.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1100
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 27.39 mm
Width: 9.16 mm
Thickness: 3.12 mm
Weight: 1.88 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Test Valley (District)
Parish or ward: Over Wallop (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU2939
Four figure Latitude: 51.14953043
Four figure longitude: -1.58677235
1:25K map: SU2939
1:10K map: SU23NE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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