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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: NMS-457CA3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete medieval copper alloy folding strap clasp, frame outside edge missing, broken with slight vestigial ridge near both extant corners, trapezoidal plate folded widthways with copper alloy rivet at narrowed attachment end, retains fragment of cloth strap. Frame extant length 8mm, width 11.5mm. Plate length 19.5mm, width 8.5mm. Extant combined length 26mm. See Egan and Pritchard (1991), 118, fig.77. Later 13th-14th century.
Notes:
ENF145749
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1270
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 26 mm
Width: 11.5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 23rd February 2019 - Saturday 23rd February 2019
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 63193
Other reference: NMD032019
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Textile
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Broadland (District)
Parish or ward: Acle (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TG3910
Four figure Latitude: 52.6350771
Four figure longitude: 1.53064204
1:25K map: TG3910
1:10K map: TG31SE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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