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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy double looped trapezoidal buckle with moulded decoration on the loops, dating to the Post Medieval period, between AD 1600 ?? 1700 (length: 48.5mm; width: 53mm; thickness at pin: 6mm; weight: 15.5g). The buckle is sub-trapezoidal in plan and flat in section. Only one of the loop remains, which large lobed knops protruding outwards from the corners of the outside edge. The central outside edge of the frame is also triangular in plan. At either end of the narrow strap bar, there are slightly corroded and protruding probable trefoil terminals. Additionally, the sides of the buckle frame are slightly curved in plan. The buckle frame is incomplete at 15mm from the narrowed strap bar. The complete copper alloy pin (length: 27mm; width: 4.5mm; thickness: see above) is intact and curves round the strap bar to fully extend towards the complete moulded outside edge of the buckle frame. Along most of the front surface of the artefact the patina still remains, there are numerous and slightly irregular punched circles, which are particularly visible along the moulded outside edge and around one of the trefoil protrusions at the end of the strap bar. The back of the artefact is flat and undecorated. Overall, the buckle is in a very worn and corroded condition with small traces of the original light green patina remaining. Similar buckles are illustrated in Whitehead, R, 1996, ??Buckles 1250 ?? 1800??, page 84, particularly ref no 530, which also has punched circular decoration on the frame. | Subjects: | double looped | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Johnson, Caroline - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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