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PURSE
Unique ID: NMS-1DF33C
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Fragment of arm from a late medieval to early post medieval purse bar of Williams' (2018) Class J, dating to the period c. AD 1450 - 1550. Circular-sectioned arm commencing in an old break at one end. It terminates in a spherical knop decorated with two circumferential grooves and one transverse groove across the end.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1450
Date to: Circa AD 1550
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 40.7 mm
Weight: 10 g
Diameter: 11.3 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 2017 - Monday 25th September 2017
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 24566
Other reference: IND25092017AM
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: North Norfolk (District)
To be known as: Field Dalling
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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