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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy buckle of medieval date. It has been suggested that such buckles are from spurs, but, as Egan and Pritchard point out (1991; pp. 78), many (including this buckle) seem too flimsy for this purpose. Whitehead (1996; pp. 34) suggests a date for this artefact type of mid 13th to late 14th century.
The frame and plate of the buckle are integral. The frame is oval in plan and of circular section. The plate is significantly narrower than the frame and tapers slightly towards the point where it is broken off. A circular hole at the frame end of the plate serves as a pin attachment and there is a small projection at the top and bottom, where the frame meets the plate. The pin, which is made from a flattened and tapering piece of copper-alloy wire, is looped through the attachment hole; its point rests on the outer edge of the frame. Part of a rivet hole survives within the plate, lying just to the right (as you look at it) of the pin attachment hole.
The buckle measures 13.2mm high by 19.2mm long and 3.9mm thick; it weighs 1.21g. | Subjects: | Oval frame with integral plate | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Watters, Julian - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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