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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy buckle frame with spacer for composite buckle plate. Oval frame with notch and projecting pointed pin rest in the middle of the outer side. The frame has a flat back and inner edge and bevelled top and outer edge. It is 22.3mm long, 20.6mm wide and 2.5mm thick.
From the frame projects the forked spacer with two points. Each point is flat with a straight outer edge and an inner edge that runs parrallel to the outer for 8.7mm, creating a rectangular piece 6.3mm wide, then steps in to 3.3mm wide, after the step the inner edge continues to taper towards the outer forming a point. One point is shorter than the other, presumably broken; the complete point is 25.3mm long in total and 2.0mm thick. The front and back plates and pin are missing. The piece weighs 5.01 grams.
Very similar examples can be seen in Egan and Pritchard (1991) page 80-81, e.g. No.325. They argue these date from the 14th to early 15th centurys AD (page 80). These complete examples show the plates left part of the spacer exposed which corrisponds to a slightly wider and better finished part of the points 4.4mm long and 2.4mm thick on this example. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burnett, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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