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BUCKLE
Unique ID: NMS-3C5A91
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Medieval gilt buckle with integral plate, rather worn. Oval frame with straight and widened outside edge decorated with an oblique knop at to both ends. Corroded fragment of iron pin. Plate tapering from a transverse rib at frame to a further transverse rib before a lobed terminal. Concave headed copper alloy rivet near pin hole adjacent to hole. For use with a spur. Width of frame 15.5mm. Length 43.5mm. 13th - 14th century.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 43.5 mm
Width: 15.5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 29th June 2017 - Wednesday 26th July 2017
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 30636
Other reference: DDMD072017
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Breckland (District)
Parish or ward: Bradenham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF9109
Four figure Latitude: 52.64510298
Four figure longitude: 0.82174649
1:25K map: TF9109
1:10K map: TF90NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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