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Description: | A cast copper alloy asymmetrical double-looped buckle of post-medieval date. One side of the buckle's frame is D-shaped. The other side has broken off about 15mm from the central strap and tongue bar. At each end of this bar, on the outside of the frame, is a lobed protrusion. The slightly rounded upper side of the D-shaped part of the frame is decorated with a series of punched crescents and circles and in the centre six circles have been arranged to form a flower shape. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The buckle is slightly bent out of shape and the pin is missing. A parallel of similar shape and size can be seen in Whitehead's 'Buckles 1250-1800' (p. 90, no. 558). This has been assigned a date of between c. 1575-1700. Another similar buckle is illustrated in part 8 of Marshall's article Buckles Through the Ages, 1600-1700 (Type IIB, no. 1). Marshall states that a buckle of this shape and size would be used to fasten a belt at the waist, and dates the object to the first half of the seventeenth century. This date range has also been adopted for the present example. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Payne, Naomi - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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