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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: DOR-80B8E5
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy bar-mount with two separate rivets dating to c.1350 - 1400. The mount has a convex, hemispherical cross section with transverse cable decoration of three incised grooves, two inner ridges have diagonally incised grooves. At each end is a knop with a rivet hole and a circular sectioned copper alloy rivet, both of which remain in place. The reverse is concave.
​Reference - Egan G and Pritchard F, 1991, Dress Accessories, page 213 - 214, Nos. 1160 & 1161.
Date: Medieval
Dimensions: 14.25 mm x 8.23 mm x 5.75 mm.
Weight: 1.10 g.
Class: Bar-mount
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1350
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 14.25 mm
Width: 8.23 mm
Thickness: 5.75 mm
Weight: 1.1 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCMS 017663
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: West Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Bradford Peverell (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SY6393
Four figure Latitude: 50.73542644
Four figure longitude: -2.52566871
1:25K map: SY6393
1:10K map: SY63NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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