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FURNITURE FITTING
Unique ID: YORYM-48617D
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper-alloy fragment of a probable decorative furniture fitting dating to the Medieval period (c. AD 1200-1500). The mount is a thin strip of copper-alloy, decorated on one side with individual stamped beading along both long edges. One edge has the remains of a hole in the centre of the object, which may have been for a rivet. The thinness of the strip, suggests it may have functioned as a decorative sheet applied to a more robust object, such as a chest.
The fitting is 15.5mm long, 11.3mm wide, 0.3mm thick and weighs 0.3g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 15.5 mm
Width: 11.3 mm
Thickness: 0.3 mm
Weight: 0.3 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: YMT : E06096
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Bainton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE9752
Four figure Latitude: 53.95500829
Four figure longitude: -0.52327823
1:25K map: SE9752
1:10K map: SE95SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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