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Description: | Medieval copper alloy composite buckle. Oval frame with projecting triangular lip and integral forked spacer and narrowed bar with pin missing. The frame is 18.1mm long by 21.9mm wide by 2.0mm thick and the spacer forks are 26.9mm long. They step from 6.8mm wide at the bar to 3.1mm wide 4.2mm down then taper to a point. The front and back plates were originally soldered to forks as well as held by the rivet but they are now detached. The most complete one is 27.8mm long by 14.9mm wide and 1.0mm thick. There is one central rivet hole at attachment end (partially broken on one plate). The entire item weighs 6.80grams.
See Egan and Pritchard (1991), fig.49, nos.329-30 for similar examples which they date to the second half of 14 century AD to early 15th century. | 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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