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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: LANCUM-42E372
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy sword belt hanger dating from the post medieval period, that is c. AD1500-1700.
The hanger is complete and in good condition. It is a moulded strip terminating in a hook. The main body is roughly figure-of-eight-shaped with a rivet hole in the centre of each roundel. Each roudel is decorated around the rivet hole with a moulded square and basic interlace mouldings, wound around the straight sides of the two squares.
Reference: Read 2008, 224, no. 804.
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: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 59 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 1.5 mm
Weight: 7.11 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 9th February 2018
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: North West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lancashire (County)
District: Lancaster (District)
To be known as: Carnforth
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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