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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: SUR-2CB0A2
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper alloy hooked clasp in the form of a snake, with realistic moulded relief to the upper and lower surfaces, showing scales, eyes and underbelly scales. Probably from a 19th century military or police belt.
Notes:
As Read (2008), p230 number 824.
Class: S shaped fastener
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MODERN
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1800
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 44.5 mm
Width: 20.3 mm
Thickness: 4.2 mm
Weight: 15.28 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Buckinghamshire (County)
District: Aylesbury Vale (District)
Parish or ward: Upper Winchendon (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP7314
Four figure Latitude: 51.81986705
Four figure longitude: -0.94231009
1:25K map: SP7314
1:10K map: SP71SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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