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FURNITURE FITTING
Unique ID: NMS-8390E6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Post-medieval copper alloy stud from upholstery, with domed and circular head and a square-sectioned shank. The head is decorated with punched dots, annulets and crescents, with twelve curving radial lines of very small dots forming an impeller-like motif with a central ring-and-dot, cf. buttons such as Read 2005, nos. 117 - 119. Length 14.3mm. Diameter 15.6mm. 17th century.
Field CAW1
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 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 14.3 mm
Diameter: 15.6 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st March 2017 - Friday 31st March 2017
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 11937
Other reference: SET032017
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Stamped
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: TG1424
Four figure Latitude: 52.77116531
Four figure longitude: 1.17093051
1:25K map: TG1424
1:10K map: TG12SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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