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Description: | Cast copper alloy single loop buckle frame with attached plate but missing the pin. The loop is oval with a narrowed strap bar and outer edge expanded slightly into a point with no pin slot. It is 19.2mm long, 12.6mm wide and 1.7mm thick. The buckle plate is made of copper alloy sheet. The front is widest just below the attachement to the frame, with slight projecting knops to either side, below this the sides curve inwards to a waist, ending in a semicircular end. The end is bent over with one off-centre rivet hole (with seperate rivet still in place). The plate has a rectangular pin slot and cut outs at each side to fit the frame. The two strips that run over the strap bar of the frame widen to abut each other beyond the pin slot on the back but remain narrower than the front plate. There is a break between them on the back so they remain seperate strips but it is not clear if this is original. The strips form the short back plate, running just beyond the seperate rivets that are just beyond and to either side of the pin slot. The copper alloy rivets are flat to the front plate but project at the back. The plate is 17.5mm long with the fold, 14.9mm wide and 0.4mm thick. The whole piece weighs 1.90 grams.
Whitehead (2003) illustrates a similar buckle with a very similar buckle plate (p.18, no.48) which he dates c.1250-1500 AD. This suggests the end of the plate is complete and only ever had one rivet hole. Unlike the Whitehead example this one has no evidence of decoration. | 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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