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BUCKLE
Unique ID: NMS-1D837E
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete and bent Post-Medieval copper-alloy double-looped buckle with missing pin. The frame is rectangular in cross section with the outside ends of each loop formed into a triangle and bevelled externally on the upper face. There are lobed protrusions on each side at the extension of the central strap bar. Both faces are plain but there is substantial remains of a whitemetal coating. Similar buckles have been published in Whitehead 2003. 'Buckles 1250-1800', 82, refs: 512, 513. These have been dated by Whitehead to circa AD1620-1680.
Length: 40.0mm (estimated); width: 23.3mm; thickness: 1.5mm. Weight: 3.66g.
Class: double looped
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 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Width: 23.3 mm
Thickness: 1.5 mm
Weight: 3.66 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 10th October 2018 - Wednesday 10th October 2018
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 63033
Other reference: GCENF145467
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Breckland (District)
Parish or ward: Litcham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF8817
Four figure Latitude: 52.71798245
Four figure longitude: 0.78202405
1:25K map: TF8817
1:10K map: TF81NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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