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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: WILT-DEAB8C
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete cast copper alloy, symmetrical, strap fitting or mount with two integral attachment bands, dating to the post medieval period c 17th c AD. It is rectangular (21mm in length x 6.41mm in width and c2mm thick), very slightly D shape in section. Although one is now bent out of line, both bands appear to have been made to lie at right angles to the head of the mount (they extend from the extreme ends of the mount) and then bend again at right angles to it at a point 14.62mm along their length, suggesting they were intended to wrap around something of that depth. The band which is bent out of line has what may be a small collar at the point of the bend but this may be a distortion which occurred during use. The ends of both bands have been pierced, so close to the outer ends that only part of the hole remains.
It weighs 2.5g.
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: 21 mm
Width: 6.41 mm
Weight: 2.5 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 5171
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Chilmark (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST9632
Four figure Latitude: 51.08730026
Four figure longitude: -2.05848758
1:25K map: ST9632
1:10K map: ST93SE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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