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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: GLO-5B5304
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Post-Medieval copper alloy sword belt hanger. The object is roughly foliate in form with a trefoil shaped terminal and hook at the base, the hook has an animal head terminal. The face is highly decorated and consists of curvilinear vines that form a central heart shaped with an oval blow and a lis above, all of which are surrounded in leaves. There are two circular fixing holes, one at either end of the plate both are encrusted in iron corrosion that are the remains of the rivet.
Class: sword belt fitting
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: 49 mm
Width: 21 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight: 10.38 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 24th May 2018
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Ludgershall (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU2750
Four figure Latitude: 51.24853687
Four figure longitude: -1.61454128
1:25K map: SU2750
1:10K map: SU25SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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