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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: DOR-CCDF2D
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy strap fitting. A belt mount with two incomplete integral attachment spikes at the rear, set on the long axis. The mount has an upper inverted drop-shaped plate with a scalloped upper edge and projection at the base. The projection is trilobed with the central lower lobe being a loop with a central hole. The loop is likely to have had an element suspended from it, now missing. The main plate is decorated with a possible moulded human face at the centre, perhaps flanked by wings. The lower projection is decorated with a row of three raised oval pellets. Both faces retain areas of copper-coloured gilding. The rear is flat. This is possibly a sword belt mount.
Date: Post Medieval - c. 1600 - 1700
Dimensions: 30.94 mm x 20.47 mm x 2.45 mm
Weight: 5.90 g
A similar more complete example is recorded in database record WILT-F3576E
Class: Belt mount
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: 30.94 mm
Width: 20.47 mm
Thickness: 2.45 mm
Weight: 5.9 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCMS 019024
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: West Dorset (District)
To be known as: Wynford Eagle
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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