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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: DOR-191194
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy strap slide dating to c.1150 to 1400. The slider consists of a single, trapezoidal loop with as curved outer edge. There are a pair of opposed internal triangular projections about a quarter of the way up the sides of the frame. The sides of the frame are rectangular in section apart from the longer upper edge which has a rounded top.
Reference: Egan and Pritchard (1991: 234) illustrate a number of similar examples, including ref. 1265 which they assign to a late 12th to late 14th century date. They note that the type with internal projections are thought to be the earliest form, and were attached by passing one end of a strap through the narrower end of the aperture below the projection, leaving the wider top part for the other end of the strap (ibid: 231).
Date: Medieval
Dimensions: 22.5 mm x 16.5 mm x 1.7 mm
Weight: 2.94 g
Class: strap slide
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1150
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 22.6 mm
Thickness: 1.7 mm
Weight: 2.94 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCMS 019452
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: West Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Askerswell (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SY5394
Four figure Latitude: 50.74369331
Four figure longitude: -2.66749113
1:25K map: SY5394
1:10K map: SY54SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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