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STUD
Unique ID: BH-582816
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper-alloy stud dating to the late sixteenth or seventeenth century AD. The stud possesses an assymetrical plate which is rectangular in section. It plate comprises a lozenge which extends at one end to an elongated oval and a rectangular terminal which has been bent back on itself. From the underside of the plate, there extends a circular-section stem terminating in a tear-shaped end-plate. For parallels, see Read (2001) p. 35, no. 292. The stud measures 21mm in length, a maximum of 8mm in width and 9mm in thickness.
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 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 21 mm
Width: 8 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hertfordshire (County)
District: North Hertfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: Kelshall (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL3137
Four figure Latitude: 52.01596975
Four figure longitude: -0.0924878
1:25K map: TL3137
1:10K map: TL33NW
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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