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HASP
Unique ID: SOM-B80FC6
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Fragment of a copper alloy object, possibly a hasp. The piece has a thin front plate which is now rectangular in plan with parallel sides and probably brocken edges top and bottom suggesting it was part of a longer strip originally. The front is plain and very smoothly finished. Projecting from the centre of the back is an integrally cast loop, U-shaped in profile and circular in cross section. The fragment is 22.1mm long, 13.8mm wide and 8.5mm thick, 0.9mm thick excluding the loop. It weighs 1.91g.
While the general form is right for a hasp the small size of the loop and it circular cross section could argue against this use. Probably Roman or Medieval in date but this is again uncertain.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 22.1 mm
Width: 13.8 mm
Thickness: 8.5 mm
Weight: 1.91 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt 19262
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: South Somerset (District)
Parish or ward: Milborne Port (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST6622
Four figure Latitude: 50.99638197
Four figure longitude: -2.48586372
1:25K map: ST6622
1:10K map: ST62SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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