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BUCKLE
Unique ID: NLM-FDD2A4
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy buckle plate. A rectangular strip of copper alloy sheet, folded with a central slot, and with its ends attached to each other and the strap [lost] by two rivets of diameter 1.8mm and length 3.4mm, burred at the back. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1400.
Length: 17mm, Height: 9.8mm, Thickness: 0.9mm, Weight (with soil trapped between plates): 1.63gms
Notes:
The finder suggests this to be part of an assemblage amounting to c.5% of material recovered from an extensive site, the rest being removed illicitly without record. Archaeological opinion holds the site to have been of equivalent character to Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, in terms of its material culture. Coins are under-represented in the group
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 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 17 mm
Height: 9.8 mm
Thickness: 0.9 mm
Weight: 1.63 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 1995 - Sunday 31st December 2000
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM37235
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: near Keelby
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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