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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy medieval buckle with a tab, probably to hold a sword. The buckle frame is rectangular in plan with a central bar. The pin is missing. The external edges of the frame are bevelled, other than the lower bar on the tab which is rounded. The central bar has a broadly square shaped profile. There is evidence of a silver coloured coating on the buckle plate, which may have been tin coated.
The buckle frame is 38.8mm wide, 36.0mm long (including the tab), and 4.2mm thick at its thickest point (above the tab). The central bar is 22.7mm long. The buckle frame weighs 9.36g.
The buckle frame is very similar to object 457 in "Dress Accessories, 1150-1450" by Egan and Pritchard (2002, figure 62, p.99, and plate 1G). Egan and Pritchard (ibid. p.99) suggest that the tab was probably to hold a sword. Buckle 457 was excavated from a context dated to c1350-c1450, which represents the probable date for the buckle frame recorded here. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Slarke, Duncan - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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