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BUCKLE
Unique ID: NLM-3BCAFC
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy buckle plate, kindly identified by Rob Webley, correcting an initial identification as a pendent mount by this reporter. Plate made of folded and slotted sheet metal. At one end is an oval plate with central drilled hole of diameter c.3mm. Above this, a pelta-shaped plate bears a pair of domed rivets of head diameter c.3mm and length 5mm which pass through it to meet the other, trapezoid, end. Between the two ends is the slotted section, where the plate was folded to achieve its final form. Extensive gilding traces appear on the display side of the pelta-shaped part of the object, but not elsewhere. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1500.
Length: 26.8mm, Width: 13.9mm, Thickness (plate): 0.5mm, Weight: 2.29gms
Class: Plate
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1250
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 26.8 mm
Width: 13.9 mm
Thickness: 0.5 mm
Weight: 2.29 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 9th February 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM35593
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Scawby
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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