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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: WREX-FA40FA
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An early post-medieval copper-alloy strap fitting from a sword belt hanger, dating to the period 1500 to 1700.The plate is sub triangular in shape with a trifoliate terminal and decorated with foliate decoration.There is a forward-facing globular-ended hook.There are two rivet holes, both of which retain the iron rivets. Suspended from the hook is a copper alloy suspension loop the outer edge of which is bevelled.
Originally this object would have been one of three similar plates, which would have hung from a mount.See Read 2008, 220 No. 793 for a reconstructed example.
Length (excluding link):44mm; width: 21.1mm; thickness: 1.8mm; loop external diameter: 14.9mm; loop thickness: 2.5mm; weight: 8.7g
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: Exactly AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 44 mm
Width: 21.1 mm
Thickness: 1.8 mm
Weight: 8.7 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 19th January 2018 - Monday 19th March 2018
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Wrexham Museum Entry form No. 1270
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Decoration style: Floral
Completeness: Fragment
Surface Treatment: Incised or engraved or chased
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Flintshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Flintshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Whitford
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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