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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy oval buckle with ornate outside edge, roller, pin, and attached sheet copper alloy buckle plate. The buckle dates from the medieval period, between the the late 12th and late 14th centuries. Length: 49.1mm, width: 22.3mm, thickness (roller on the frame buckle):5.2mm. Mass: 6.4g.
The frame is broadly oval in plan, with a narrowed bar and expanded outside edge. Length 20mm, width and thickness as above. There are finishing marks visible on the frame, particularly on the inside edges. There is a slightly incomplete 7mm long roller on the opposite side to the narrowed bar. The roller is made of sheet copper alloy, with one straight and one incomplete end visible on the reverse of the buckle. There are two horizontal grooves visible on portions of the roller, but much is obscured by corrosion form the iron pin. The iron pin is twisted into a loop around the bar. The pin, in its corroded state, is 18.7mm long.
The plate is formed from sheet copper alloy which is folded around the bar, with the two sides being attached with rivets. Length: 32mm, width 14.2mm, thickness not recorded as the plate as the reverse of the plate is coming away from the central rivet. There are three rivets still in place, running diagonally across the front of the plate, between opposite corners, and a further two incomplete rivet holes in the two remaining corners. The front of the plate is decorated by a punched border. As the edges of the frame are partially incomplete, so is the border. The reverse of the plate is more incomplete, with the section farthest from the frame missing. There are the remains of the leather strap visible between the front and reverse sides of the plate.
There is a well developed green patina on the copper alloy whereas the iron pin has an uneven, expanded, corroded surface
Broadly similar buckles are illustrated in Egan, G & Pritchard, F, 2002, ??Medieval Finds from Excavations in London: 3: Dress Accessories c. 1150 ?? c. 1450??, page 76-7, number 317 (with slider but shorter undecorated plate, from a context dated between c.1270-c.1350) and 318 (no slider but punched decoration on plate, from a context dated between c.1350-c.1400). Egan and Pritchard suggest that the basic form of oval buckles with ornate outside edges and plates were a ??long-standing fashion, in use from the late 12th to the late 14th centuries?? (ibid. page 76). | 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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