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Description: | Fragment of a Medieval cast copper alloy buckle frame with spacer for composite buckle plate. The remainder of the frame suggests it was oval. The frame has a flat back and inner edge and bevelled outer edge. From the frame projects the forked spacer only half of which remains. The point is flat with a straight outer edge and an inner edge that runs parallel to the outer for 8.4mm, creating a rectangular piece the first part of which is raised for the plate to abut. Below this rectangular piece the point steps in to half the width, after the step the inner edge continues to taper towards the outer forming a point which is bent over. The front and back plates and pin are missing. The piece measures 40.2mm long by 9.5mm wide and 3.0mm thick. It weighs 1.31 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 the slightly thicker and better finished part of the points. | 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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