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Description: | A worn and incomplete cast copper-alloy composite buckle of medieval date. The buckle comprises forked spacer plate and frame cast in one, two sheet plates riveted in place and the pin; the frame is the incomplete element with less than half of it remaining. The frame would probably have been D-shaped with a protruding lip and possible pin rest. In cross-section it is the shape of a triangle with rounded corners: the reverse and inner faces are flat and the outer face bevelled. The spacer features a notch for the pin and two intact prongs. It is moulded on the lateral plane either side of the pin constriction. Below this the prongs are obscured on both faces by the two rectangular sheet plates. At the attachment end is a circular aperture with angled groove flanked by a rivet hole on each side both with an extant rivet. The pin has been cast in the shape of a tapering triangle and is now loose. This buckle is similar to, though shorter than, some illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 79; fig. 48) of 14th-century date. | Subjects: | composite | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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