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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy chatelaine, or belt hook used to suspend useful household tools on the end of chains so that they could be used while still attached. The longest edge has a series of four perforated holes, each 2 mm in diameter, the central two of which retain their wire links that are about 15 mm long. The shorter upper edge of the chatelaine has a series of three perforated holes. Between the perforations, at both edges, are a series of three parallel transverse ridges that broaden out creating a trapezoidal shape between the two runs of perforations. The surface retains a small patch of gilding near its longest edge.There are several near identical chatelaines on the database in records SUR-7C4BCC, BH-000223, DUR-02AEDE and WAW-298E62, which are all dated from the 13th century.DUR-02AEDE refers to a similar object was excavated from ditch MH193 at Thrislington, County Durham (Austin 1989, fig.57 no.13). This ditch appears to have been dug during the 13th-century rebuilding of the manor house and was later filled in during alterations to the house before its final abandonment in the mid 14th century (Austin 1989, 49 and 52, fig.14.3-4). The likely date for the object is therefore the 13th century.
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