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Description: | Fragment of Medieval copper alloy rectangular or square shaped decorated buckle frame with a central bar and traces of gilding, consisting of an outer edge and parts of two arms, bent slightly outwards. It measures 50.6x21.8x2.1mm and weighs 7.5g.
The outside edge is 8.2mm wide. In each corner, where the arms extend (and the same width as those arms) is a square, defined by the outside edges of the frame and two grooves at right angles. Between these two squares, a groove runs at the middle of the edge and is crossed in two places by a horizontal groove. This creates six rectangular areas, in three pairs. The outer two of these areas flanking the outside edge are decorated with diagonal grooves. The central one flanking the inside edge is also decorated in this way. The other three are plain, to give an alternating pattern.
The decoration continues on the surviving parts of the two arms (which are 7.7mm wide), each having two areas each, the outside edge area of which is decorated. The breaks on these arms are very regular and smooth, almost suspiciously so. However it is uncertain what this object could be if not a buckle frame.
The reverse of the object has patches of iron staining and loss of patina.
Comparable buckles from London in Egan & Pritchard 1991 (nos.447 and 450) are mid-14th to mid-15th century in date. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hinds, Katie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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