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BOOK FITTING
Unique ID: NLM-17D66D
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy book fitting. Cast straight-sided strip with an expanded fishtail at one end, with a row of three countersunk fixing holes of aperture diameter 1.6mm adjacent to it, and with a short curled rectangular lug at the other end. The fishtail bears incised and ruled chevrons in seven overlapping bands providing a feathered effect. A double ring and dot of diameter 6.8mm appears near this on the body of the plate, with perhaps another lost from further along. Finely incised longitudinal lines are crowded towards a plain zone from which the curled lug springs. Now bent roughly in half. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1600.
Length (as found): 47.7mm, Width: 26.7mm, Thickness: 1.4mm, Weight: 14.68gms
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 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 47.7 mm
Width: 26.7 mm
Thickness: 1.4 mm
Weight: 14.68 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 22nd February 2010
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM44935
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Multiple
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Roxby cum Risby (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE9215
Four figure Latitude: 53.62346419
Four figure longitude: -0.61047871
1:25K map: SE9215
1:10K map: SE91NW
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.
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