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DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Unique ID: NMS-62C16D
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Fragment of medieval or post-medieval copper alloy eye plate, just under half with trapezoidal loop, flanked by two sewing loops, broken across mid-point of lozengiform plate with counter-relief foliate decoration. Extant length 19mm. Extant width 23mm. See Read (2008), 683-5, Early post-medieval Class A, Type 10. Later 16th-17th century.
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 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 19 mm
Width: 23 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 5th April 2018 - Wednesday 6th June 2018
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 39972
Other reference: ENMD062018
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: North Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Little Barningham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TG1333
Four figure Latitude: 52.8523423
Four figure longitude: 1.1619924
1:25K map: TG1333
1:10K map: TG13SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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